Igor Maratovich Ponomaryov (Russian: Игорь Маратович Пономарёв; 6 June 1965, Leningrad — 30 October 2006, London), was the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Chairman of the Maritime Safety Committee since 2003.
He was also a Governor of the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden, and he served as Chairman of the Council of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) from 2001 to 2002.
Since 1993 Ponomarev was involved with the development of the Russian Federation's participation in IMO's activities.
[2] Ponomarev had been set to meet with Mario Scaramella, a lawyer investigating the FSB, before he died.
Scaramella also met with ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned two days after Ponomarev's death.