[1] He was the State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russia from 2005 to 2007, and the Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Complex of the Government of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012.

Rudneya is a member of the General Council of the United Russia party[3] Igor Rudenya was born in Moscow on 15 February 1968.

In September 1995, he became one of the founders and managers of the Pokrov Fund for Assistance to Employees, Veterans and Families of Perished State Security Officers.

[8][9] On 22 August 2008, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed Rudenya as the Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Complex of the Government of Russia.

[11] In October 2009, Rudenya entered the list of candidates for the post of governor of the Volgograd Oblast proposed by Dmitry Medvedev.

[4][13] On 23 June 2016, Rudenya submitted documents to the Election Commission of the Tver Oblast for his nomination as a candidate for the post of regional governor.

[20][21][22] His grandfather Mikhail Rudenya (1922-2002), a veteran of the World War II, at the front was a lieutenant of the medical service, as a paramedic.