[1][2] In 2022 Forbes rating, Lisin dropped to third place among Russian billionaires, behind Andrey Melnichenko and Vladimir Potanin, his fortune estimated at $22.1 billion.

Lisin sits on the board of directors of the Novolipetskii Metallurgical Combine, one of largest steel companies in Russia, in 1998 and still holds that position.

[5][6] Until January 2023 he was a member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs bureau, but then left the post of his own free will.

In 1989, he graduated with an MSc in metal engineering from the Central Research Institute of ferrous metallurgy named after I. P. Bardin (Moscow).

In 1990, he received a diploma of the higher commercial school under the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade of People's Friendship Order, the training program "Administration and activity management of joint ventures in the territory of the USSR" (Moscow).

In 1992 an MSc in Economics and Management from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA).

[19] He resisted calls to step down as president, supported by the Russian-born ISSF Secretary General Alexander Ratner – who claimed that neither had any links to the Russian government.

[21] In March 2022 Lisin called for a peaceful resolution in a letter to staff at NLMK, writing that "Lost lives are always a huge tragedy that is impossible to justify.

"[22] However, in September 2022 it was claimed that NLMK had supplied materials to Russian firms involved in nuclear weapon development, and that tankers owned by Lisin had participated in evading EU sanctions by trans-shipping oil at sea to EU-registered vessels.