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Evelina Zakamskaya was born on November 17, 1977, in Baku, and graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tver State University. She is a presenter for Radio Mayak and for Mir, a television and radio company. Since 2006, she has been an anchor for television channel Russia 24. She writes and presents Mnenie (Opinion), a talk show covering social and political issues, and Idei, menyayushchie mir (World-Changing Ideas), a series of popular science programmes. Evelina Zakamskaya moderates Russia 24 sessions at major international forums. She is married with two daughters.

Mr. Mahmood Hashim Alkooheji is the Chief Executive Officer of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company (Mumtalakat), the investment arm of the Kingdom of Bahrain. He is responsible for devising and executing its strategy to actively manage and grow a diverse portfolio of commercial assets locally, regionally and internationally. As the Chief Executive Officer of Mumtalakat, Mr. Alkooheji oversees the management of the Company’s stakes in over 40 commercial enterprises, and the growth of its portfolio value. He also directs the Company’s initiatives to firmly implement the highest standards of transparency and corporate governance across Mumtalakat and its diverse holdings. Mr. Alkooheji is actively involved in the management of portfolio companies and sits on the boards of Gulf Air, McLaren Automotive Limited and McLaren Group Limited, Durrat Khaleej Al Bahrain Company, the Arab Petroleum Investment Corporation (APICORP), Bahrain Real Estate Investment Co. (Edamah), Arcapita Group, Gulf Air Group Holding Company and Governors of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bahrain. Mr. Alkooheji served as the Chairman of the Board of Alba from 2008 to 2014. Within this role, he spearheaded ALBA’s restructuring in 2009 and the successful listing of 10% of its shares on both the London and Bahrain stock exchanges in 2010. Mr. Alkooheji holds a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Staffordshire University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Henley College of Management, Brunel University, UK.

Mr. Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi serves as the Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Emerging Sectors of Mubadala Development Company PJSC. Waleed is also a member of Mubadala’s Investment Committee. The committee is mandated to develop the company’s investment policies, establish investment guidelines and review all proposed projects and investments to ensure they are in line with Mubadala’s business objectives. In addition to his position as Chief Operating Officer of Mubadala, Waleed is a member of the Board of Directors of several key Mubadala Group and other operational businesses. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yahsat, Mubadala Infrastructure Partners, the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Tabreed. He is Vice Chairman of Piaggio Aero Industries and is a Director of AMD, Al Maabar, du, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar). Prior to joining Mubadala, Waleed worked with the UAE Offsets Program Bureau as a Senior Project Manager. He previously worked with McKinsey & Company as a commercial and governmental consultant. Waleed holds a Masters from Harvard University, USA, and a Bachelors of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, USA.

Born March 17, 1959 in Moscow. Higher education. Graduated in 1981 from Lomonosov Moscow State University as a Cybernetics Economist. From 1981 to 1986, he worked as an intern researcher and junior research fellow of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute under the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1986 to 1990, he was a junior research fellow, a research fellow and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of Scientific and Technical Progress under the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1990 to 2006, he worked as a senior research fellow and head of the laboratory of the Institute for Economic Forecasting under the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2008, he was Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. In 2008, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. From 2008 to 2012, he was Director of the Department of Economics and Finances under the Government of the Russian Federation. From 2012 to 2013, he was Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Since June 24, 2013, he has been an Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. He holds the rank of an Active State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, first class. He is a doctor of economic sciences. In 2007, he was awarded the honorary title ‘Honoured Economist of the Russian Federation’. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Honour. He is married with one son.

Laurent Vigier is a member of the Caisse des Dépôts Group’s Management Committee and since 2007, has been in charge of developing the Caisse des Dépôts Group’s premier relationships with sovereign funds and long-term international investors. Thus, Laurent contributed to the creation of the Long-Term Investors’ Club (LTIC) in 2009 and of the Institutional Investors Roundtable (IIR) in 2011, as well as setting up the first multilateral funds: Marguerite (€710 million), Inframed (€385 million) and the Franco-Chinese SME fund (€150 million). He was previously Director of European and International Affairs and Permanent Representative of the Group to the European institutions (2007 to 2013), Senior Advisor to the staff of the President of the French Republic on multilateral/G8 matters and then of European affairs between 2003 and 2007. Laurent began his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs working on WTO matters (1998-2002) and as a Senior Advisor to the staff of the Minister for European Affairs from 2002 to 2003. He is a former student of the ENA (class of 1998) and of the Ecole normale supérieure - Ulm, has an Agrégation in history and is a former student of Harvard University.

Prior to becoming CEO of RDIF in 2011, Kirill Dmitriev headed a number of large private equity funds and completed a series of landmark transactions, including the sale of Delta Bank to General Electric, Delta Credit Bank to Société Générale, STS Media to Fidelity Investments, etc. At the beginning of his career he worked at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company. He is Deputy Chairman of the Investment Council under the Chairman of the State Duma of Russia, Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and was appointed by the President of Russia as a member of the BRICS and the APEC business councils; he also was selected as ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. He serves as a member of the boards of directors of Rostelecom, Gazprombank, MDMG, Russian Railways and a member of the boards of trustees of the Mariinsky Theatre and Moscow State University. In 2011 he was the only Russian representative in the list of ‘100 most influential private equity professionals of the decade’ (Private Equity International). He holds a BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School.

Kwek Ping Yong is the CEO of Singapore’s Inventis Investment Holdings (China), the largest foreign private equity fund based in China. He has been one of the most successful investors in China for 16 years now and is known as “China’s Warren Buffett”. He manages four funds with $6.2 billion in assets under management (ranked fourth among the world’s growth funds according to Preqin). Inventis funds have $3.6 billion in investable assets, second only to Baring Private Equity among the world’s growth funds according to Preqin. Kwek Ping Yong set up his first mainland China investment fund in 1996 and has since carried out more than 40 investment projects across China’s regions in various industry sectors, including machine engineering, natural resources, food and beverage and retail. Over the past 17 years he successfully exited most of his investments through sales to strategic investors and pre-IPO deals. He generated an average ROI of 33% annually in 1998–2014.

Tadashi Maeda has held various positions at JBIC, including Representative in Washington, Head of Delegation to OECD Trade Finance Committee, Director General of Energy, Natural Resources Finance Group, Director General of Corporate Planning Department, Managing Executive Officer & Global Head of Infrastructure Finance Group. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as Special Advisor to the Cabinet and provided the Prime Minister and Chief Cabinet Secretary with advice on new economic growth strategy, energy policy and infrastructure development policy to the international market. He also served as member of the Steering Committee of Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund Steering Committee from 2011 to 2013. Currently he is a member of the advisory board of International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), the UK based think tank. Mr. Maeda graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law in 1980.

Dr. Rhee Keehong joined KIC in 2006as Head of Investment Management Team and has contributed to the establishment of KIC investment organization and process in the early days of KIC. In 2012, he heads up the Investment Strategy Group which is responsible for Investment planning & monitoring, SAA, TAA, Research, Treasury and hedge fund. After serving the chief representative of NY office who supervises all the activities occurring in the North and Latin American 2013, he is now deputy CIO and research head who is in charge of all the research and related investment activities. Prior to joining KIC, he worked for some prominent financial institutions, mainly focusing on the international investment, for about16 years. He was a portfolio manager at Samsung Life Insurance from1994 to 1998, an equity analyst at HSBC Securities Seoul 1998~1999, and most recently, he oversaw overseas investment at Korea Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives.He graduated from Seoul National University with a B.A. and a M.A.in Economics. He also holds a M.S. in Accounting from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a CFA and FRM charterholder.

Since September 2011 Chief Executive Officer of Fondo Strategico Italiano (“FSI”), a risk capital investment company with Euro 4.4 billion of equity commitments. FSI shareholders are Cassa Depositi e Prestiti and Banca d’Italia. Chairman of the Supervisory Board of STMicroelectronics N.V., one of the world's largest semiconductor companies listed on the Milan, New York and Paris Stock Exchange. Chairman of the Joint Venture between FSI and Qatar Holding (IQ Made in Italy Investment Company) with up to Euro 2 billion capital for investments in Food & Food Distribution, Fashion & Luxury, Furniture & Design, Leisure-tourism & Lifestyle. Member of: - the Italian Ministry of Economic Development Industrial Compact task force; - the Executive Committee of the Italy-China Business Forum; - the Italy-France Business Forum; - the International Advisory Board of RDIF. 24 years experience in the financial sector. Worked in Milan, London and New York. Gained significant experience in Corporate Finance, Private Equity, Debt and Equity. Until 2011, Head of Southern Europe Corporate & Investment Banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and member of Bank of America Merrill Lynch EMEA Executive Committee. Degree in International Monetary Economics from Bocconi

Yichen ZHANG is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of CITIC Capital Holdings Limited. Mr. Zhang began his career on Wall Street in 1987, having joined Greenwich Capital Markets, Bank of Tokyo as Head of Proprietary Trading, and Merrill Lynch as Managing Director of Debt Capital Market for Greater China. In 2000, he joined CITIC Group as the President of CITIC Pacific Communications and Executive Director for CITIC Pacific (now CITIC Limited). He founded CITIC Capital in 2002 and has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since then. Under his leadership, CITIC Capital led a number of landmark deals, investing in some of China’s leading companies, Alibaba, Sina, Harbin Pharmaceutical, SF Express, AsiaInfo and Focus Media. He currently sits on the boards of Sina Corporation, Shenhua Group Corporation Limited, Harbin Pharmaceutical, AsiaInfo and SF Express. Mr. Zhang is a leader in the alternative investment industry. He is a board member of Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), Executive Committee Member and former Chairman of the China Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA). He is also a Vice Chairman in Beijing Private Equity Association (BPEA), Tianjin Private Equity Association, and a Vice Chairman of its Private Equity Investment Fund Professional Committee under the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC). Mr. Zhang is also a leader in political, economic and social communities. He is a member of the Eleventh and Twelfth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Vice Chairman of Center for China and Globalization (CCG), member of the Foundation Board of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the China Economic and Social Council (CESC). He obtained his degree in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A strong believer in education, Mr. Zhang has been supporting the Andover Asia Council as its Co-Chairman, Yale Asia Development Council as a Council Member, and the Dalton Foundation as a board member.