From 1992 to 2002, he worked in credit and financial institutions in executive positions (Inkombank, National Reserve Bank, Sberbank).

During his time as President of AvtoVAZ, from 2009 to 2013, Igor Komarov and his team carried out reforms to radically reorganize the car factory.

[5] According to an investigation by Important Stories, Komarov's daughter Maria owns an apartment in Belgravia, London - worth about 4.2 million pounds sterling .

[7] and on 6 April 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added Komarov to its list of persons sanctioned pursuant to Executive Order 14024.

In 2007 he purchased a five story red brick townhouse on Herbert Crescent in central London for over $16.5 million through a British Virgin Islands-based shell company.

Komarov is now listed as the beneficial owner of the shell company and the deed of the house now contains a warning restricting the sale of the property.