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Albert Eganyan is recognised by market participants, regulators, key national and foreign reference guides and ratings as one of Russia’s leading experts on infrastructure investments, PPP and project financing. In recent years, he has been involved in delivery of over four dozen major projects in the road, railway, airport, social, IT, energy and other infrastructure spheres, beginning with the very first PPP projects in Russia. He is a regular speaker at leading sectoral, expert and departmental conferences, boasting a significant number of published works. Since 2011,: co-founder and Chairman of the Board of InfraONE (First Infrastructure Company), specialising in the full cycle of investments in infrastructure projects. In recent years, the company has been among the leaders on the relevant market. Founder, co-owner and Chairman of the Partners’ Board of the national law firm VEGA LEX, a leading consultancy known, among other things, for its projects in the sphere of infrastructure investments and public-private partnership. Author and co-author of a significant part of the federal law regulating various PPP forms. Member of the Expert Board under the Russian Government and the General Board of the All-Russia NGO Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia). In recent years, he has been a member of the Board of Directors from the Russian Federation of the biggest infrastructure companies, including the so-called special list of strategic enterprises: airports, seaports, financial institutions and many others. He has also represented the interests of Russian regions or biggest private shareholders on the Boards of Directors. He is a member of strategic boards in a number of biggest national infrastructure FSUEs. As a champion of infrastructure development in Russia, he acts as project manager and representative of national and regional authorities and big private companies in implementing various projects and also as an investor in different infrastructure projects.

Dirk Ahlborn is a German-born entrepreneur. In the 1990s he founded several companies in the alternative energy and interior design sphere. He co-founded and became CEO of Jumpstarter in 2013, the company that developed the crowdsourcing platform JumpStartFund in El Segundo, California. He is also the CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a project initiated and incubated using JumpstartFund's crowd collaboration process. Dirk Ahlborn is known worldwide for his outside-the- box approach to giving paradigm-shifting businesses life, leveraging the full power of crowd-collaboration, the Internet, and exponential technologies at the vanguard of the global sharing economy. Dirk Ahlborn’s two decades as a serial entrepreneur serve him well as CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. As CEO and Founder of JumpStarter, Inc., a California-based, crowd-powered online business incubator. Mr. Ahlborn used JumpStartFund’s crowdfunding and crowd collaboration platform to greatest effect in co-founding HyperloopTT, considered to be the largest and most successful crowd-sourced startup in history.

Born in 1969. Graduated from St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 1992. 1998–2000 OJSC Lenenergo, Deputy Commercial Director, Commercial Director. 2000–2001 Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District, Head of the Financial and Economic Department. 2001–2002 OJSC LOMO, Deputy Director, Management of Corporate Property. 2002–2004 OJSC Russian Fuel Company, Managing Director. 2004–2009 Federal Road Agency, Deputy Head, Head 2009–2015 Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister, First Deputy Minister. August 2011 Assigned Class Rank of Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st Class. August 20, 2015 Appointed President of OJSC Russian Railways. Mr. Belozerov is the chairman of the International Union of Railways (UIC) and co-chairman of the Russia–France Business Cooperation Council. He has been recognized for his services by numerous state and industry awards.

He was born on November 16, 1960. He graduated from Norilsk Industrial Institute with highest honors, majoring in "Industrial and civil construction". In 1984 he started his professional career as a foreman in the Construction and Erection Department of the shaft-sinking trust company of Norilsk Nickel. Then he became deputy head of the Production Department of the Construction and Erection Association "Norilskstroy". In 1995 he was appointed deputy general director of Norilsk Nickel.From 2000 - Norilsk mayor, from 2003 - governor of Taymyr (Dolgan-Nenets) Autonomous Region.On October 27, 2009 at the extraordinary general meeting of shareholders he was elected Chairman of the Management Board of JSC "FGC UES".In June 2013 he was elected Director General of Joint Stock Company "ROSSETI".He is a member of the Russian Presidential Commission for Strategic Development of the Fuel and Energy Sector and Environmental Security.Vice chairman and senior adviser of World Energy Council (WEC) in charge of regional development.He has a number of national and industrial awards.

He graduated from Voznesensky Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute and holds a PhD in Economics. Upon graduation, Alexey Miller was engineer-economist at the General planning division of Leningrad Civil Construction Research and Design Institute (LenNIIproekt under the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council). 1990 - Junior researcher, Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute; Section Head, Economic Reform Committee, Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. 1991–1996 - Head of the Markets Monitoring Division, Foreign Economic Relations Directorate, External Relations Committee of St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office; Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Directorate; Deputy Chairman of the External Relations Committee. 1996–1999 - Director for Development and Investments, Sea Port of St. Petersburg. 1999–2000 - Director General of Baltiyskaya Truboprovodnaya Sistema (Baltic Pipeline System). 2000 - Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation. Since 2001 - Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom. Since 2002 – Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors.

Peter has been a frequent speaker at energy industry conferences for the last decade. He is currently the Chief Energy Analyst at Interfax Global Energy Services, and managing editor of the monthly Gas Analytica, a new publication that provides expert insight into Gas markets fundamentals and short- and medium-term price forecasts. Before Interfax, he worked for 5 years as Principal Consultant at KBC Energy Economics, where he was chief economist and led the group’s market analysis team. He is also involved in econometric research at Surrey University on the subject of oil and gas pricing benchmarks, building on his 20 years of experience with the Price Reporting Agency (PRA) Platts. He worked at Platts in a number of different roles, including Director of Markets and Pricing, in which role he was responsible for Platts global assessment processes for all commodities. Peter is a frequent speaker at oil and energy industry conferences on all aspects of the oil and gas value chain, as well as emerging markets such as bio-fuels. He has spoken and chaired discussion sessions at conferences in Europe, Middle East, Russia and Asia for companies such as Euromoney, Oil Council, SMi, Platts, Informa, Lloyds List and others. He has also contributed to discussion on radio and TV programs on energy issues, and provided training on energy pricing to government departments, academic institutions and many large companies. His specialisms include: oil and gas supply-demand fundamentals and trade; oil refining; oil and gas pricing; new fuels technology; technical and econometric analysis of markets; and the role and practices of the PRAs. Book-length publications: Korea: The Next Step (Euromoney Books, 1994); Pakistan: Meeting the Challenge (Euromoney Books, 1995); Spectrum Guide to the UAE (Camerapix, 1996) Research articles: Oil Benchmarks in International Trade issue of Oxford Energy Forum with Bassam Fattouh (Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, February 2012); BFO assessment methodology (OIES, 2003); contributor to Old Oil, New Rules (Platts/McGraw-Hill, 2000); Benchmark Pricing (DRI/PAC, 2000); Asian Oil Pricing Mechanisms (Platts, 1993).

F. William Engdahl is a political economist and founder of Engdahl Strategic Risk Consulting, providing geopolitical strategic risk advice to companies and financial institutions. He has specialized for more than thirty seven years in geopolitical analysis of global events, and is an American citizen living and working in Germany since 1985. Mr. Engdahl was a lecturer in economics at the Rhein-Main University in Germany and was a Visiting Professor in Political Economy at Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He authored the international best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics, published as well in German, French, English, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Korean, Turkish, Croatian, Slovenian. In 2010 he published Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century and in 2013 a new edition of his best-selling Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation completing a trilogy on the power of oil, food and money control. His book, Target China: How Washington and Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon appeared in 2014, and The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy is due for release in summer 2015. After a degree in politics from Princeton University (USA), and graduate study in comparative economics at the University of Stockholm, Engdahl worked as an independent economist and research journalist in New York and later in Europe, covering the fields of energy policy worldwide; global trade; EU food policies, the grain trade; IMF policy; Third World debt issues; the politics of hedge funds and the 2007-2015 dollar crisis.