Programme

Moderator
Sergey Katyrin, President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Sergey Katyrin

President, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Born on October 2, 1954 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Car and Road Construction Institute and the International Business School of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). Took an active part in establishing and developing the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, which held its founding Congress on October 19, 1991. At the 7th congress in March 2016, he was elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation for a second term. The range of Sergei Katyrin's activities as President of CCI Russia includes effective coordination within the national network of chambers of commerce and industry of Russia, which incorporates territorial chambers of commerce and industry, associations and business unions. Establishment of productive cooperation with legislative assemblies and executive authorities at both national and regional levels constitutes yet another area of his daily concern. Sergei Katyrin represents Russia's Chamber of Commerce and Industry in major business unions where he is among the board members.
He is a member of the working group for joint anti-corruption measures of representatives of the business community and government authorities under the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Counteracting Corruption and takes part in meetings of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Counteracting Corruption. He sits on the government's Commission for Development of Small and Medium-sized Businesses and is a member of the Public Council for Development of Small and Medium-sized Businesses, which works under the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly. At the same time, Sergei Katyrin fulfils functions related to the international activities of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, being Chairman of the Russian chapter of the BRICS Business Council and Chairman of the Russian National Branch of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Business Council. In addition, he is a member of the Committee of the Chief Executives of CIS Chambers of Commerce and Industry. During the term of Sergei Katyrin’s presidency, the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed the Anti-Corruption Charter of Russian Business.

Panellists
Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Vladimir Bulavin, Head, Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation
Alexey Grom, President, Chairman of the Management Board, United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA)
Alexander Misharin, First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways
Vladimir Norov, Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Richard Threlfall, Partner, Global Head of Infrastructure, KPMG
Song Hailiang, General Director, China Communications Construction Company

Olga Algayerova

Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

On 13 April 2017, the Secretary-General appointed Ms Olga Algayerova of Slovakia as the next Executive Secretary of the UNECE. She took office on 1 June 2017.
Ms. Algayerova brings to the position a combination of leadership and diplomatic skills with deep knowledge of the region with its challenges and opportunities and a strong focus on building and nurturing partnerships among key stakeholders with the United Nations.
Prior to her appointment, she served as Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the International Organizations in Vienna, Austria (since 2012). She was previously President, Slovak Millennium Development Goals (2010-2012); State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2010) and Corporate Export Manager, Zentiva International, a.s. (2004-2006).
Born in 1959, Ms. Algayerova holds a Master in Contemporary Diplomacy from Malta University, a Master in Business Administration from The Open University Business School, United Kingdom and a Dipl. in Engineer of Economy from the University of Economics Business Faculty, Bratislava.
On 12 July 2017, Ms. Olga Algayerova was sworn-in by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres.

Vladimir Bulavin

Head, Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation

Born in Lipetsk Region, Russia on February 11, 1953. Graduated from Moscow Institute of Railroad Transport Engineers (1975), and the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR (1979).
Starting from 1977, he was employed by state security bodies.
Starting from 1979, he served in KGB Administration, Office of the Ministry of Security – Administration of the Federal Counterintelligence Service – Administration of the Federal Security Service (UMB-UFSK-UFSB of the RF) in Nizhny Novgorod Region.
In 1992 – 2006 – the head of the UMB-UFSK-UFSB of the RF in Nizhny Novgorod Region.
Worked as the Chair of the Council of FSS Bodies Heads in Volga Federal District (since 2001), the Deputy Director of the FSB of Russia - Head of the Administration of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (since 2006), Senior Deputy Secretary of the RF Security Council (since 2008), a standing representative of the President in the Northwestern Federal District (since 2013).
In 2016 he was appointed the Head of the FCS of Russia.
Awarded the orders “For Merit to the Fatherland” of the III and the IV degree, “For War Services”, decorations “Honorary Officer of Counterintelligence Service”, “For Service in Counterintelligence” of the II degree, medals of the USSR and RF.
Candidate of Legal Sciences, the distinguished officer of the security bodies of the RF.
Married, has two children.

Alexey Grom

President, Chairman of the Management Board, United Transport and Logistics Company – Eurasian Rail Alliance (UTLC ERA)

He graduated from the Russian University of Transport (MIIT) in 1993 (specialty "Transport Organization and governance in transport"), Stockholm School of Economics – in 2004 (Master of Business Administration). He was born on September 10, 1971 in Moscow. Married and has three children. Fond of football.
Work experience:
1993 – Engineer at LLP “Sistema”;
1997 – General Director of CJSC “Transcom”;
2000 – Head of the Sales Department of Transport Services at CJSC “Company "Russky Mir”;
2001-2003 – Deputy Director for Logistics of CJSC “YUKOS-RM”;
2003 – General Director of CJSC “YUKOS-Transservice”;
2007 – First Deputy, then General Director of LLC “Firm “Transgarant”;
2008 – Managing Director, Member of the Management Board, Vice-President for the Railway Division of the FESCO MC;
2011 – Member of the Board of Directors of PJSC “TransContainer” and CJSC “Russkaya Troika”; Member of the Presidium of the Operators Council of Rolling Stock
2012 – Member of the Supervisory Board of POJSC “Vladivostok Commercial Seaport” (VCSP), Vice President for Railway Division, First Vice President of PJSC “Far Eastern Shipping Company” (FESCO). Member of the Board of OYI Nurminen Logistics (Finland);
2014 – Member of the Board of Directors of LLC “Rail PRO”. May 2014 – First Deputy General Director of LLC PO “UTLC”;
2016 – First Vice-President of JSC “UTLC”. Since March 2016 – President of JSC “UTLC”, member of the Board of Directors of JSC “UTLC”. Member of the Board of Directors of Coalco Development;
Since 2018 – President of JSC “UTLC ERA”.

Alexander Misharin

First Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Russian Railways

Alexander Misharin was born in 1959. He graduated from the Urals State University of Railway Transport as a Railway Transport Electrification in 1981. He obtained his second university degree, in economics, from the same university in 1997. Misharin has a CSc degree in economics and a DSc in engineering.He started out as an electrician and rose through the company to become chief engineer of Sverdlovsk Railway. He served as Deputy, First Deputy Minister of the Railways, Chief of Sverdlovsk Railway, Director of the Department for Integrated Development of the Infrastructure of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, and Director of the Department for Industry and Infrastructure of the Central Office of the Government of the Russian Federation.He was Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region from 2009 to 2012.Alexander Misharin became First Vice-President of Russian Railways JSCo in December 2012.

Vladimir Norov

Secretary General, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Born on 31 August 1955 in the Bukhara Region.
Education:
In 1976, he graduated from the Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute. In 1985, he graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, USSR. In 1990, he graduated from the postgraduate military course of the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, USSR. Cand.Sc. Law. He speaks English and German.
Professional experience:
1978–1992 Served in different capacities for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan;
1992–1995 Expert, a consultant on administrative and legal issues of the Presidential Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
1995–1996 Deputy, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
1996–1998 State Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
1998–2003 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Germany, Switzerland and Poland;
2003–2004 First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
2004–2006 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Belgium, Head of the Mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the EU and NATO;
2006–2010 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
2010–2013 First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
2013–2017 Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the Benelux, Head of the Mission of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the EU and NATO;
2017–2018 Director of the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan;
Since 1 January 2019, he holds the position of Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
He holds the diplomatic status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
Awarded the Order Mehnat Shukhrati of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2003).
Mr Norov is married and has three children.

Richard Threlfall

Partner, Global Head of Infrastructure, KPMG

Richard has over 20 years’ experience in infrastructure policy, governance, strategy and financing, advising both public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas.
Richard began his career as a civil servant at the UK Department for Transport where he held positions in the road, rail and aviation directorates. Between 1996 and 1998 he was Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Transport and the Deputy Prime Minister. He subsequently moved to the Infrastructure Advisory team at Citigroup before joining KPMG, where he led the UK Infrastructure, Building and Construction sector until 2018.
Richard has an extensive network of contacts across the infrastructure, transport, utility, and construction markets and the related political, financial and legal communities, in the UK and internationally. His clients include national and local infrastructure and transport authorities, private infrastructure owners and promoters of infrastructure schemes. He has advised on the governance and financing of some of the worlds’ most complex civil engineering projects.
He has a long-standing reputation for leading clients through complex and politically high-profile transactions and providing strategic, financial and governance advice in relation to the delivery of infrastructure services and projects.
He has a particular interest in supporting the impending mobility revolution, promoting dialogue between the public and private sectors globally to maximise the social and economic benefits of autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles and mobility as a service.
Richard is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is a member of the Infrastructure Board of the Confederation of British Industry. He chairs the Advisory Council of The Infrastructure Forum, which is an independent think-tank which brings together organisations with involvement in UK infrastructure from public, private and regulatory perspectives. He is a prolific writer on infrastructure and transport, and is quoted regularly in the trade and national press.

Song Hailiang

General Director, China Communications Construction Company

Hailiang Song was born in July 1965. Member of the Communist Party of China, senior engineer, professor, receives a state subsidy from the State Council. PhD in management from the Tianjin University, was an NPC deputy representing the Dongcheng District of Beijing. He received the following awards: ‘Most attention-getting entrepreneur of 2008’, ‘Ten best entrepreneurs of modern management’, ‘Honors worker of central SOEs’.
In 1987, graduated from the Wuhan University of Technology, specializing in Design and Production of Port Equipment.
July 1987 – August 1993 successively held positions of assistant engineer and engineer at the Institute of planning and designing of water transportation of the Ministry of Transport.
August 1993 – December 1998 successively held positions of deputy director and director of the Waterways management department (later renamed project director) at the Institute of planning and designing of water transportation of the Ministry of Transport.
December 1998 – November 1999: assistant to rector and director of operations department, concurrently, at the Institute of planning and designing of water transportation.
November 1999 – September 2001: deputy rector of the Institute of planning and designing of water transportation.
September 2001 – June 2006: rector of the Institute of planning and designing of water transportation.
June 2006 – December 2012: Chairman of the Board, General Director, Institute of planning and designing of water transportation (in August 2012 appointed Chairman of the Board and Secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.).
September 2012 – December 2013: assistant to the President of China Communications Construction Company, and Chairman of the Board and Secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd, concurrently.
January 2014 – February 2014: member of the Permanent Committee and Vice President of China Communications Construction Company; Chairman of the Board and Secretary of the party committee of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.
March 2014 – December 2014: member of the Permanent Committee and Vice President of China Communications Construction Company; Chairman of the Board, Secretary of the party committee and President of Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Co., Ltd.
January 2015 – April 2017: member of the Permanent Committee and Vice President of China Communications Construction Company; Chairman of the Board, Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Co., Ltd.
May 2017 – October 2018: member of the Permanent Committee and Vice President of China Communications Construction Company.

Front row participants
Anton Zamkov, General Director, RT-Invest Transport Systems
Vyacheslav Saraev, Chief Executive Officer, Head of the Executive Board, TransContainer

Anton Zamkov

General Director, RT-Invest Transport Systems

He was born on August 19, 1974 in Moscow.
Married, two children.
In 1996, he graduated from the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. In 2007, he received an MBA from the Higher School of Business and Management of the International University.
1996 – 2001 – served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
2001 – 2007 – Head of the Project Implementation Department of Central Telegraph OJSC
2007 – 2011 – Director of Project Management Department, CenterTelecom OJSC
2011 – 2012 – Director of the Project Management Department of Rostelecom OJSC
2012 – 2014 – Deputy General Director – Technical Director of Optima Plus LLC.
2014 – 2016 – CBO of RT-Invest Transport System LLC.
Since November 1, 2016 - CEO of RT-Invest Transport System LLC.
In 2012, he was awarded the second-class medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland.
In 2018 “RT-Invest Transport Systems” LLC was nominated as “Best digital practice of blockchain implementation in the state-owned companies and corporations” at the key blockchain award of Russia “Economics of Blockchain” and become awardee of “The Best in Russia 2017”award in “Technologies and Innovations” field.
The project of “RT-Invest Transport Systems” LLC – the “Platon” system has become the awardee of “RUNet prize” in the “Technologies and Innovations” nomination as the most successful national-wide IT-project of the year.

Vyacheslav Saraev

Chief Executive Officer, Head of the Executive Board, TransContainer

Prior to joining TransContainer, from 2011 to 2018, Vyacheslav Saraev held a number of senior positions in EvrazHolding Ltd., the management company of EVRAZ.
From January 2015 to October 2017, he served as CEO of EVRAZ Nahodka Sea Trade Port, a leading stevedoring company in the Russian Far East.
Mr. Saraev graduated from the Kuzbass Technical University in 1998. He received his PhD in technical sciences from Institute of Coal and Coal Chemistry of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Science.
Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Company on 29 June 2018.

Moderator
Jacek Cukrowski, Chief of the Europe and Central Asia Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Jacek Cukrowski

Chief of the Europe and Central Asia Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Mr. Jacek Cukrowski is a MSc in System Engineering, PhD in Computer Science and a PhD in Habilitation (i.e., a senior post-doctoral qualification) in Economics.

Before joining the Europe and Central Asia Division, he led operations of the UNIDO Institute of Capacity Development. Previously, he worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a Millennium Development Goals adviser and a Team Leader at the Regional Center for Europe and Commonwealth of Independent States. Earlier he was with the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Poland and with the Economic Institute of Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

Mr. Cukrowski has extensive experience in advisory and technical cooperation projects in most of the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is the co-author of the UNDP Central Asia Human Development Report: “Bringing down barriers: Regional cooperation for human development and human security”.

In recognition of sustained professional and academic excellence he received the title of Professor, conferred by the President of Poland.

Panellists
Irina Gaida, Partner, PwC Strategy& Russia
Li Yong, Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Gulnaz Kadyrova, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Anastasia Kalinina, Head of Eurasia, World Economic Forum
Galina Karelova, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Erika Lindauerova, General Manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, HP Inc.
Doris Lippert, Head of Digital Advisory Services for Austria, Microsoft Corporation
Veronika Peshkova, President, Foundation for the Development of Public Diplomacy Women's Perspective; Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Julia Solovieva, Director for Business Operations on EMEA Emerging Markets, Google Russia

Irina Gaida

Partner, PwC Strategy& Russia

Ms. Gayda has more than 12 years of experience in oil and gas consulting, focusing on strategy, operational improvements and organizational development. She worked with largest Russian and several international major oil companies on project in Russia, Central Asia and Europe.

Ms. Gayda performed projects in the areas of digital transformation, strategy, performance improvement and innovation management focusing on topics of realizing full organizational potential in multifunctional and multidisciplinary teams.

Before joining PwC she provided headed oil and gas practice of The Boston Consulting Group in CIS for 7 years. Prior to that she worked in private equity and strategy practice of Bain & Co in Paris and was project manager in internal audit of United Technologies Corporation in London and Hartford, CT.

Li Yong

Director General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

Li Yong, has had an extensive career as a senior economic and financial policy-maker. As Vice-Minister of Finance of the People’s Republic of China and member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank for a decade, Mr. Li was involved in setting and harmonizing fiscal, monetary and industrial policies, and in supporting sound economic growth in China. He pushed forward financial sector reform, and prompted major financial institutions to establish corporate governance, deal with toxic assets and strengthen risk management. Mr. Li gave great importance to fiscal and financial measures in favor of agricultural development and SMEs, the cornerstones for creating economic opportunities, reducing poverty and promoting gender equality. He played a key role in China’s cooperation with multilateral development organizations, such as the World Bank Group and the Asian Development Bank.
June 2013 Director General of UNIDO.
2003-2013 Vice-Minister, Ministry of Finance (MOF), People’s Republic of China.
2002-2003 Assistant Minister, MOF.
1999-2002 Secretary General, Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
1996-1998 Executive Director for China, World Bank Group.
1992-1996 Deputy Director General and then Director General, World Bank Department, MOF.
1990-1992 Senior Advisor to Executive Director for China, World Bank Group.
1989-1990 Director, World Bank Department, MOF.
1985-1989 Second Secretary and then First Secretary, Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations.
1984 Deputy Director, Foreign Fiscal Research Office, Research Institute for Fiscal Science, MOF.

Gulnaz Kadyrova

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Was born July, the 6th in Naberezhnye Chelny. Education: Higher. In 1987 graduated from The Kazan financial and Economic University, specialization «Industry Planning». Economist, PhD (Doctor’s degree in Economic Sciences). Experience: Since 1987 - 1989 - Economist in Department of Labor Organization and salary in Production Association «KamAZ»; Since 1989 - 1990 – Economist of financial department of State executive committee in Naberezhnye Chelny; Since 1990 – 1997 – State tax inspection in Naberezhnye Chelny; Since 1997 – 2001 – Econimic adviser – counselor of the portreeve of Naberezhnye Chelny; Since 2001 – 2003 – Director in Audit company; Since 2003 – 2004 – Deputy Head of Administration of Naberezhnye Chelny in economic and financial sphere; Since 2004 – 2006 – Head of Economic and Financial Department in Federal industrial agency of Russian Federation «Rosprom»; Since 2006 – 2007 – deputy Director of the State Department of industrial policy of Ministry of Industry and Energy of Russian Federation ; In January 2008 was appointed as Director of Department of fiscal and finance in Ministry of Industry and Energy of Russian Federation; July 11th was appointed by an order of Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation (Order №11) as Director of fiscal policy and finance Department of Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation; Since 2014 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation.

Anastasia Kalinina

Head of Eurasia, World Economic Forum

Anastasia Kalinina is the Head of Eurasia at the World Economic Forum. As part of her responsibilities, she curates regional agenda through engagement with governments, civil society, academia, expert communities, and research organization partners in Eurasian countries. Previously, she has worked with the Global Shapers Community of the World Economic Forum, which is a network of over 450 city-based Hubs around the world led by young people between the ages of 20-30 who self-organize to have impact in their cities. Prior to joining the World Economic Forum, Anastasia directed the launch of numerous global projects such as WomenHIV platform and Social Camp in Russia, Coaching for Development in Nepal, Palomar5 in Germany, and many more. She has run her own initiatives targeting young entrepreneurs in Switzerland, Germany and France. She has launched and implemented a two-year project in St. Petersburg, Russia helping women and children in difficult life situations. Anastasia holds a BA in Literature from St. Petersburg State University, BA in Humanitarian Sciences and Arts from Bard College, MA in Communication Studies from University of Northern Iowa, and MSc in Human Rights from London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a John Smith Fellow, an honorary member of the International Project Management Association, member of international trade professionals network NASBITE, and a Global Leadership Fellow of the World Economic Forum. Her interests include global affairs, governance and leadership, sustainability, emerging technologies and social innovation.

Galina Karelova

Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
Born on 29 June 1950 in the city of Nizhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Region. In 1972, she graduated from the Sergei Kirov Urals Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering and economics. PhD in Economics and DSc in Social Sciences, professor. For 20 years she was engaged in teaching and research. Author of over 150 papers on economic, social and political issues.
Since 1990 – delegate, Deputy Speaker (1992–1993) of the Sverdlovsk Regional Parliamentarian Council.
1994–1996 – Deputy of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairperson of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy.
1996–1997 – Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Humanitarian, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
Since 1997 – Deputy and since 2000 – First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Russian Federation.
April 2003 – March 2004 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation on Social Affairs.
April 2004 – December 2007 – Chairperson of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation.
On 2 December 2007, she was elected a deputy to the Fifth State Duma, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
On 4 December 2011, she was elected a deputy to the Sixth State Duma, First Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veteran Affairs.
Since 22 September 2014, she is a Representative of the executive authority of the Voronezh Region in the Federation Council. Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy. Initiator and drafter of more than 40 laws, including laws on social protection. Full State Counsellor 1st Class of the Russian Federation. Decorated with state orders and medals.

Erika Lindauerova

General Manager for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, HP Inc.

Erika Lindauerova is the Managing Director for HP Inc. in Czech Republic and Slovakia.

She has been the General Manager of Printing and Personal Systems Group (PPS) and Member of the Board of Directors at Hewlett-Packard for Czech Republic and Slovakia since July 2012. Previously she has held several management positions at HP in Czech Republic and Slovakia covering Printing Business in various areas, i.e. category management, marketing, channel and distribution organization development, and end customer business development in consumer, SMB, large enterprises and public accounts. Erika joined HP in August 1997 as the Printing Category Manager for Slovak Republic.

In addition, Erika actively supports the development of key talents in various mentoring groups and is actively supporting the Employee Engagement initiatives.

Erika Lindauerova holds a Master's degree from the Faculty of natural Sciences, Comenius University, the Slovak Republic.

Doris Lippert

Head of Digital Advisory Services for Austria, Microsoft Corporation

Ms. Doris Lippert is a Digital Advisor Lead at Microsoft Austria, where her team helps customers driving Digital Transformation projects across various industries, with focus on platform transformation and business model reinvention.

Prior to Microsoft she was Head of New Business at the “Point of Origin” which is an Austrian based consulting company focusing on business transformation projects. Her department was responsible for developing transformation projects in the retail and financial services industries through the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).

Before joining the “Point of Origin” in 2016, Doris spent more than 5 years at SAP, a German multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations, in charge of the customer engagement activities. She helped customers developing and implementing their customer experience strategies. Therefore she was leading the topics of Customer journey management, CRM and Omnichannel management.

Ms. Lippert holds an M.A. in management from IMC Krems and a B.A. in Marketing & Sales from Campus02.

Veronika Peshkova

President, Foundation for the Development of Public Diplomacy Women's Perspective; Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)

President of Public Diplomacy Foundation ‘Women’s View’, Executive Director of the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization ‘Centre for Women’s Entrepreneurship Development’, Member of the Management Board of OPORA Russia.
Actively participates in the implementation of international and federal projects in women’s entrepreneurship and leadership.
Graduated with honours from the Department of International Economic Relations of the Russian University of Cooperation, Master of Business Administration, MBA from Kingston University. Had internships in the USA and Great Britain.

Julia Solovieva

Director for Business Operations on EMEA Emerging Markets, Google Russia

Director of Business Operations, EMEA Emerging Markets, Google Russia.

Julia joined Google Russia in January 2013.

She oversees countrywide commercial operations, setting the long-term strategy and overall growth.

Prior to joining Google, Julia Solovieva was Executive Vice President and President, Russian media holding ProfMedia (2007–2012), where she was responsible for asset management, corporate governance and overall strategy and management of the holding.

From 2003 to 2006 she was Corporate Development Director, Mobile TeleSystems OJSC.

From 2001 to 2003 she lived in the Netherlands and was an Associate at the strategic consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.

Julia Solovieva is an honoured graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (Boston, USA).

She is a member of the High-Potential Management Personnel Reserve, a programme announced by the president of Russia which brings together thousands of the most talented Russian managers.

Front row participants
Renee Jones-Bos, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Russian Federation
Valeriya Seledkova, General Director, GEFCO Russia
Olga Sorokina, Managing Partner, O2 Consulting
Tatyana Terentyeva, Director of Human Resources, ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation
Anna-Maria Treneva, Head, Facebook, Instagram & Messenger for Russia
Eugenia Tyurikova, Head, Sberbank Private Banking
Nadiya Cherkasova, Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank

Renee Jones-Bos

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Russian Federation

Education:
1976 Russian and English Studies, Politics and Economics
University of Antwerp (Belgium)
1977 Master of Arts degree in Russian Studies
Sussex University (United Kingdom)

Mrs. Jones Bos worked in the USSR from 1978-1980 as assistant to the Agricultural Counsellor. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, in 1981 and was posted in Washington, Paramaribo, Dhaka and Moscow.

She then had the following assignments:
1994-1998 Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Prague
1998-2000 Head of the Security Council Task Force, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
2000-2003 Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
2003-2005 Deputy Director for Regional Policy and Consular Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
2005-2008 Director-General for Regional Policy and Consular Affairs,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
2008-2012 Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States of America
2012-2016 Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague
2016- Ambassador, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Moscow

Valeriya Seledkova

General Director, GEFCO Russia

Education
Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics.

Career

1995 – 1997 Head of the European Bank of reconstruction and development (EBRD) in Tajikistan
1997 – 2002 Project activities on energy sphere within EU TACIS program (Technical Assistance to CIS countries)
2002 – 2006 Economist in Russian office of the Danish company COWI, member of the Directorate on environmental protection (OECD)
2006 – 2012 Financial Director of JSC “Promstroy”
Vice-President - Director of Treasury Department in Promstroy Group CJSC, managing company of the Holding, member of the Audit Commission, member of the Board of the Holding
2012 – 2015 Financial Director of Alstom Group in Russia and CIS, General Director of one of Group’s companies
2015 – August 2017 Financial Director of GEFCO in 1520 region - Russia, CIS and Baltics
September 2017 – present time General Director of GEFCO Russia, member of Board of Directors of GEFCO Group in Baltics
Managing Director of 1520 region - Russia, CIS and Baltics

Olga Sorokina

Managing Partner, O2 Consulting

She graduated with honours from the Moscow State Law Academy (MSAL) with a degree in International Law, and also completed an International Law course at Indiana University, USA. She passed a bar exam and a member of the Moscow Bar Association.
Olga has been practising law for more than 20 years, working at the junction of international corporate and tax law, including the law of foreign countries. She specializes in M&A, legal support of cross-border transactions, investment projects, and structuring global holding companies.
Olga Sorokina is the founder and managing partner of one of the leading law firms O2 Consulting. The company has been in the Russian market for more than ten years, and over the years has implemented many hallmark projects in real estate, finance, high-tech solutions, retail and gained recognition in leading international and Russian ratings: Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, IFLR1000, Best Lawyers, Pravo-300 and Kommersant. The company has offices in Moscow, Zurich and Nicosia.
Since 2012, Sorokina has also overseen the work of the Swiss Family Office Fidentia Trust AG, which is part of O2 Consulting.
Olga is actively involved in public work and is a headline speaker at forums and conferences, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Atlanta Forum and many others, where she speaks in support of women’s leadership and entrepreneurship. She is also a member of the Mentors’ Council of the Women Leadership Forum, the business mentor of the Atlanta Forum, the Experium and Unimentors portals mentor.
Olga is an exceptional person who has managed to maintain the perfect balance between a successful business career and a family, raising eight children.

Tatyana Terentyeva

Director of Human Resources, ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation

Has 18 years of experience in human resources management. During the last five years she has been leading the annual TOP 1000 Russian Managers rating in energy by Managers Association and Kommersant publishing house. In 2016, she won the eponymous national award, taking the first place among all country’s HR managers. In 2018, she took the grand prix in the HR Manager of the Year nomination of the Crystal Pyramid 2018 award for achievements in human resources management established by the organizing committee of the Summit of HR managers Russia, CIS and Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
In the state corporation she oversees development and implementation of HR management strategy in the industry. As a result of her work, Rosatom has been repeatedly recognized as the best employer for graduates in engineering and technical specializations in Universum international rating. Rosatom leads the rating of best Russian employers according to HeadHunter, the country’s largest recruiting portal. Rosatom is the only partially state-owned company that was called the best employer according to a research by AON Hewitt international consulting company.

Anna-Maria Treneva

Head, Facebook, Instagram & Messenger for Russia

Leads business development and sales team for Facebook, Instagram and Messenger in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe. She joined Facebook Inc. in 2013 to build sales in Russia and CIS. Prior to that from 2010 she led digital transformation of CTC Media as Chief Digital Officer & Member of Management Board. Prior to CTC Media Anna-Maria served as CEO of Next Media Entertainment. Co-founder of Digital CEO Club, co-founder of charity initiative “You Can!” for underprivileged teenagers, participant of Young mediamanagers of Russia rating by PwC and Odgers & Berdston. Education: Stanford Graduate School of Business, Entertainment Masterclass – TV Executive MBA, Bauman Moscow State University.

Eugenia Tyurikova

Head, Sberbank Private Banking

Head of Sberbank Private Banking.
In the Sberbank Private Banking team: since 2016.
Work experience in the financial sector: over 20 years.
Education:
o MBA Diploma in Financial Management;
o Diploma in the International Financial Reporting;
o Certificate of Professional Tax Consultant of the Ministry of Finance of Russia;
o Moscow State Academy of Law, Legal Studies major.
Previous experience:
o Vice President of Finance and Economics, Summa Group;
o Director of Treasury, Accounting and Tax Planning, West Siberian Resources Ltd (NK Alliance);
o Financial Director, Kommersant Publishing House;
o Financial Director, CB BFG-Credit.
Married with five children.

Nadiya Cherkasova

Deputy President and Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank

Member of the Board of Otkritie FC Bank. She completed the Institute of Economics at Lobachevsky State University in Nizhny Novgorod, and subsequently, the International Finance and Banking School of Moscow (IFSBM). She interned at South Shore Bank (USA), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Austria), and the International Institute for Management Development –(Germany). From 1994, she worked at the Nizhny Novgorod branch of Inkombank, where she headed the credit department. In 1998, she was named the head of the KMB-Bank division of Nizhny Novgorod. As of 2003, she was a member of the Board, Director of the business development department of KMB-Bank (Moscow). In 2005, she joined Trust Bank as the managing director for the development of small and medium-sized businesses. From 2009 was the head of the corporate block, and, later, Chairman of the Board of Trust Bank. In July 2013 she was named Senior Vice President, Director of the department of customer service for small business for VTB24 (VTB Bank). In March 2014 she joined the Board of VTB24. She is the winner of the National Banking Award “For Efficient Bank Management,” granted by the Association of Russian Banks. In 2007, the Journal of World Business listed her among the 35 most successful women under 35 in business project implementation. In 2010, banki.ru named her “Person of the Year,” and she joined the ranks of the top 50 most influential women of Russia.

Moderator
Stephanie Flanders, Senior Executive Editor for Economics, Bloomberg; Head, Bloomberg Economics

Stephanie Flanders

Senior Executive Editor for Economics, Bloomberg; Head, Bloomberg Economics

Panellists
Alexey Kudrin, Chairman, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation
Elvira Nabiullina, Governor, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Maxim Oreshkin, Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Anton Siluanov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation
Frederic Oudea, President, European Banking Federation; Chief Executive Officer, Société Générale

Alexey Kudrin

Chairman, Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

Born on October 12, 1960 in the town of Dobele, Latvian SSR, in the family of a serviceman.
1983 - graduated from the Economics Faculty of the Leningrad State University.
1983 - 1985 - an intern researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
1985 - 1988 - graduate student of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Ph D. in Economics (1988, thesis: "Comparability in the Mechanism of the Implementation of Economic Competition Relations").
From 1988 - a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
From October 1990 - Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Reform of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. After the liquidation of the Economic Reform Committee, he moved to the Management Committee of the Leningrad Free Economic Zone.
November 1991 - 1992 - Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development.
August 1992 - 1993 - Chairman of the Chief Financial Administration of the Mayor’s Office of St. Petersburg (later renamed the Finance Committee).
1993 - June 1996 - Deputy, First Deputy Mayor, member of the City Government, Chairman of the Committee for Economics and Finance of the Mayor’s Office of St. Petersburg.
In August 1996, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation he was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Head of the Main Control Office of the President of the Russian Federation.
In March 1997, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

From January 1999 - First Deputy Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia.
In June 1999, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
From May 2000, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
From March 9, 2004 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation he was appointed Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
From September 2007, by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation - Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Released from office on September 26, 2011 by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1251.
Since April 2012 - Chairman of the Committee of Civil Initiatives - a community of professionals able to offer alternative solutions to the problems facing the country.
In April 2016, he became the head of the Center for Strategic Research, and was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council under the President of Russia.
On May 22, 2018, on the proposal of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the position of Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Author of more than 30 scientific papers in the field of economics and finance.
Married, has a son and a daughter.

State awards
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III class
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV class
Order of Friendship
Certificate of Honour of the President of the Russian Federation
Certificates of Acknowledgement of the President of the Russian Federation
Medal of P. A. Stolypin, I degree
Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation
Certificate of Acknowledgement of the Government of the Russian Federation
Medal of VV Leontiev "For Achievements in the Economy"
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Elvira Nabiullina

Governor, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)

Professional experience

1991–1992: Chief specialist in the Directorate on Economic Reform of the Standing Committee of the USSR Scientific and Industrial Union Board, Moscow.
1992–1994: Chief specialist, consultant for the Directorate of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on Economic Policy Issues.
1994–1994: Adviser at the Expert Institute of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
1994–1995: Deputy Head of the Economic Reform Department – Head of the Division for State Regulation of Economy of the Russian Federation Ministry of Economy.
1995–1996: Deputy Head of the Economic Reform Department of the Russian Federation Ministry of Economy.
1996–1997: Head of the Economic Reform Department of the Russian Federation Ministry of Economy, member of the Ministry's Board.
1997–1998: Deputy Minister of Economy.
1998–1999: Deputy Chairperson of the Promtorgbank Board.
1999–1999: Executive Director of the Eurasian Ratings Service.
1999–2000: Vice President of the Centre for Strategic Research Foundation.
2000–2003: First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2003–2005: President of the Centre for Strategic Research Foundation.
2005–2007: Head of the Expert Council of the Organizing Committee for Russia's Presidency of the G8 in 2006, Head of Research at the Centre for Strategic Research.
On 24 September 2007, appointed Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Since 12 May 2008: Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
May 2012 – June 2013: Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
Since June 2013: Governor of the Bank of Russia.
Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors pursuant to Article 15 of the Federal Law “On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)”.

Education:

● Economics Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Maxim Oreshkin

Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Born on the 21 July 1982 in Moscow. In 2004 graduated from Higher School of Economics (Masters in Economics). 04.2002 – 06.2006 – serve in various capacitites at the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. 07.2006 – 07.2010 – serve in various capacitites at Rosbank, Société Générale group. 07.2010 – 06.2012 – Head of Research on Russia and CIS at Crédit Agricole CIB. 06.2012 – 08.2013 – Chief Economist for Russia at VTB Capital. 09.2013 – 03.2015 – Head of the long-term strategic planning department at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. 03.2015 – 11.2016 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. From 30 November 2016 – Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Anton Siluanov

First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

Born April 12, 1963 in Moscow.
Education: Higher. D. Sc. (Economics)
Speaks German
1985: Graduated from Moscow Finance Institute specialising in Finances and Credit.
08.1985–03.1987 – RSFSR Ministry of Finance, economist, senior economist.
03.1987–05.1989 – Served in the Soviet Army.
05.1989–01.1992 – RSFSR Ministry of Finance, leading economist, category 1 economist, leading economist, deputy head of subdepartment, consultant.
02.1992–02.1992 – Ministry of Economics and Finance of the Russian Federation, deputy head of department.
02.1992–10.1997 – Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, deputy head of Budget Management Department, head of department, deputy head of Budget Department.
10.1997–07.2003 – Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, head of Macroeconomic Policy and Banking Department; from 22.03.2001 member of the Ministry of Finance Board.
07.2003–05.2004 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
05.2004–12.2005 – Director of Inter-budgetary Relations Department.
12.2005–09.2011 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
09.2011–12.2011 – Acting Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
12.2011 –05.2018 – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Since 05.2018 – First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation

2001 – awarded certificate of merit of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
2002 – received Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation.
2002 – received Gratitude of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
2013 – received order “For services to the Homeland” Grade III.

Frederic Oudea

President, European Banking Federation; Chief Executive Officer, Société Générale

Born in 1963. Frédéric Oudéa is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.
From 1987 to 1995, Frédéric Oudéa held various positions in the French senior civil service (Audit department of the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Budget Ministry, Private Office of the Minister of Budget and Communication). In 1995, he joined Societe Generale and in 1996 he was appointed Deputy Head then Head of the bank’s Corporate Banking arm in London. In 1998, he became Head of Global Supervisory and Development of the Equities division. In May 2002, he was named Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Societe Generale Group. He became Chief Financial Officer of the Group in January 2003. In 2008 he was appointed CEO of the Group, before becoming Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 2009. Following the regulatory split between the roles of chairman and chief executive, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer in May 2015. In 2010 he was named Chairman of the Steering Committee on Regulatory Capital (“SCRC”) at the Institute of International Finance (“IIF”) and President of the European Banking Federation (“EBF”) since January 2015. In September 2015 he was named Chairman of the French Banking Federation (“FBF”).

Moderator
Victor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Skolkovo Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Renova Group

Victor Vekselberg

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Skolkovo Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Renova Group

Born in 1957.
Graduated with honors from the faculty of automation and computer engineering of the Moscow Railway Transport Engineering Institute (MIIT).
In 1990 Viktor Vekselberg founded Renova, an asset management company. Mr. Vekselberg currently holds office as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of companies.
In 1996 he founded SUAL Group and served as its President until 2003 when he eventually chaired the Board of Directors of the Group.
Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Tumen Oil Company from 2002 until 2003. Member of the Board of Directors of TNK-BP from 2003 until 2013.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Company Rusal (UC Rusal) from 2007 until March 2012.
In March 2010, Viktor Vekselberg was appointed as Head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center project. Viktor Vekselberg has been President of the Skolkovo Foundation since June 2010.

Panellists
Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Teruo Asada, Chair, Japan-Russia Business Cooperation Committee, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)
Irina Bokova, Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO (2009-2017)
Andrey Varichev, Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST
Hemant Kanoria, Chairman, Managing Director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited
Anatoly Karachinsky, President, IBS Group
Ian Colebourne, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte CIS
Svetlana Lukash, Deputy Head, Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation; Russian G20 Sherpa
Alexander Sergeev, President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Renate Hornung-Draus, Vice President, International Organization of Employers (IOE); Managing Director, Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA)
Andreas Schaal, Director of Global Relations Secretariat, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Maxim Akimov

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born March 1, 1970 in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluzhskaya oblast. Graduated history department of Kaluiga State Pedagogical University. Worked two years as a history teacher. Served in the military. 1994 – 1996 – headed Fineart-Audit. 1996 – 1997 – chairman of a regional commission on securities. 1997 – 2001 – deputy director of economy and industry department of Kaluzhsky regional government. 2001 – 2004 – first deputy of a state property committee of Kaluzhskaya oblast. 2004 – minister of economic development of Kaluzhsky region. 2004 – 2007 – first deputy of Kaluga mayor, then mayor of Kaluga. 2007 – May 2012 – deputy governor of Kaluzhskaya oblast. May 22, 2012 appointed deputy chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. May 24, 2013 appointed first deputy chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. May 18, 2018 appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Married, has two sons.

Teruo Asada

Chair, Japan-Russia Business Cooperation Committee, Japan Business Federation (Keidanren)

DATE OF BIRTH: October 13,1948
GRADUATE: 1972 from Keio University
BUSINESS CAREER:
April,1972 - Joined Marubeni Corporation, Finance Dept.
April,1978 - Los Angeles Branch, Marubeni America Corporation ( - March,1983)
April,1992 - Marubeni International Finance p.l.c. London ( - March,1996)
April,1998 - Deputy General Manager, Finance Dept.
October,1999 - General Manager, Business Solutions Dept.
April,2001 - Senior Operating Officer, Division CIO, Finance & Logistics Business Div.; General Manager, Finance & Insurance Business Dept.
April,2002 - Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Finance Dept.
April,2003 - Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Finance Dept.; Senior Corporate Officer, Investor Relations
April,2004 - Corporate Senior Vice President, General Manager, Finance Dept.; Executive Corporate Officer, Investor Relations
April,2005 - Corporate Senior Vice President, Executive Corporate Officer, General Affairs Dept., Corporate Accounting Dept., and Finance Dept.; Vice Chairman of Investment and Credit Committee; Chairman of "V"PLAN Committee; Executive Corporate Officer, Investor Relations
June,2005 - Corporate Senior Vice President, Member of the Board, Executive Corporate Officer, General Affairs Dept., Corporate Accounting Dept., and Finance Dept.; Vice Chairman of Investment and Credit Committee; Chairman of "V"PLAN Committee; Executive Corporate Officer, Investor Relations
April,2006 - Corporate Executive Vice President, Member of the Board, CIO; Executive Corporate Officer, Information Strategy Dept., Corporate Accounting Dept., and Finance Dept.; Advisor to the President for Information & Communication Div.; Vice Chairman of Investment and Credit Committee; Executive Corporate Officer, Investor Relations
April,2008 - President and CEO, Member of the Board
April,2013 - Chairman of the Board
REWARD:
October,2013 - Awarded The Order of Bernardo O'Higgins

Irina Bokova

Director General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO (2009-2017)

Irina Bokova graduated with a degree in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in 1976. In 1989 she was a Ford Foundation Fellow at the University of Maryland School of Public Affairs and in 1999 completed an executive program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has held positions such as Bulgaria's first Secretary of State for European Integration, Foreign Minister of Bulgaria a.i., twice an MP, Ambassador of Bulgaria to France and Monaco, and the Permanent Representative of the republic of Bulgaria to UNESCO. Irina Bokova also contributed to the new Bulgarian Constitution in 1991.
Irina Bokova was the Director-General of UNESCO for two four-year terms (2009 - 2017). She was the first woman and the first Eastern European leader of the Organisation.
She has received state honors from many countries and honorary doctorate from a number of universities, among them MGIMO, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University.

Andrey Varichev

Executive Director, Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST

Education:
1991 — Graduated from the aviation and mechanical faculty of Moscow Institute of Aviation Technology named after K. E. Tsiolkovsky (MATI) as aircraft mechanical engineer.
Professional experience:
From Oct. 2013 CEO of METALLOINVEST Management Company.
06.2009 — 06.2014 CEO of METALLOINVEST Holding Company JSC.
Feb. — June 2009 CEO of METALLOINVEST Management Company.
2006 — 2008 Commercial Director of METALLOINVEST Management Company.
2005 — 2006 CEO of Mikhailovsky GOK.
2003 — 2004 First Deputy Sales Director of Ural Steel LLC; from 2004 – Deputy General Director of Ural Steel LLC for commercial matters.
2001 — 2002 Deputy Director and afterwards Export Sales Director at TD NOSTA-OKhMK LLC
1991 — 2001 Held senior positions at a number of Russian iron and steel companies, including ZAO InterUral and NTMK JSC.

Hemant Kanoria

Chairman, Managing Director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited

A pioneer in the field of infrastructure, Hemant Kanoria has reshaped India's infrastructure landscape with innovative ideas and a strong passion for excellence. "Srei" was conceptualised in 1989 as an initiative marking the entry of private sector in the field of infrastructure, a domain hitherto restricted to public sector. In the last two decades, Srei has been developed into one of India's largest holistic infrastructure institutions with an asset base of around USD 5.5 billion. Hemant's contribution towards inclusive infrastructure development in India has been non-pareil. He is a visionary and a strategist who always believes in offering simple solutions to complex problems. Many of his ideas were first of its kind and created new business sectors. He is known in the country for having unleashed a new wave of rural entrepreneurship. He is also the Trustee of the Kanoria Foundation which, under its umbrella, has entities with a total asset base of about USD 10 billion. The group is at the vanguard of thought leadership in the country, especially in the area of infrastructure development and financing. Hemant has over three decades of experience in industry, trade and financial services. He is currently serving as Board Member in the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, Neotia University and New Delhi Institute of Management. He has held several prestigious positions like President of Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the FICCI National Committee on Infrastructure and served on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) besides being a Member of the Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee, Government of India.

Anatoly Karachinsky

President, IBS Group

Born July 12, 1959 in Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, Computer Science, Technical Cybernetics Department, specialising in System Engineering.
1981–1986: Computer Centre at the All-Union Research Institute for Railways.
1986–1988: Director, Prosystem (an Austrian company).
1988–1992: Director, Intermicro Joint Venture.
1992–1997: President, IBS.
Since 1997: President, IBS Group.
Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Science and Innovation Policy.
Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Union’s Committee on Professional Development and Professional Qualifications.
Member of the Public-State Council on the System of Independent Appraisal of the Quality of Professional Education.
Member of the Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on Federal State Educational Standards.
Member of the Expert Council attached to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luxoft, an NYSE traded public company.
Married, with two sons.

Ian Colebourne

Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte CIS

Ian is the CEO of Deloitte CIS. During his 20-year career, he has built an impressive record of success through a variety of roles including establishing the leading Forensic practice in the CIS, heading the Risk Consulting business and Chairing the EMEA Forensic Group at another Big Four firm. He joined Deloitte in 2012 to lead the Financial Advisory Services practice.Ian has cross-disciplinary experience, having led a number of investigations, corporate intelligence and fraud risk management assignments. He also has experience of financial sector regulatory reviews, and has conducted numerous FCPA investigations, compliance reviews and due diligence assessments for International investors across the CIS. Ian holds a BSc degree in Biological Science from Birmingham University (UK) where he also completed the Legal Practice Course, passing it with Commendation, and qualified as a Solicitor.

Svetlana Lukash

Deputy Head, Expert Department of the President of the Russian Federation; Russian G20 Sherpa

Russian G20 Sherpa and Deputy Chief of Presidential Experts' Directorate. Svetlana Lukash was born on 20 March 1977. Graduating in 1999 from the Russian State University for Humanities she continued post-graduate studies in the Institute for Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences. She started her career in the Federal Energy Commission of Russia; then worked for Russian consulting companies, media holding 'Expert' and the Expert Council on Russia's G8 Presidency in 2006, until in 2007 she joined Presidential Executive Office to cover broad set of issues of global agenda, including G8 and G20, as well as national climate and environment policy. Six years as head of the Russian G8 sherpa office and G20 sous-sherpa turned to be indispensable benefit for developing and running the program of the Russian G20 Presidency in 2013, which she had finished in a Sherpa's position. By now Ms Lukash had managed substantive preparation of 11 G20 summits, having witnessed evolution of G20 since its inception at the leaders’ level.

Alexander Sergeev

President, Russian Academy of Sciences

Renate Hornung-Draus

Vice President, International Organization of Employers (IOE); Managing Director, Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA)

Ms. Renata Hornung-Draus is the Managing Director of BDA, the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations, President of BUSINESSEUROPE’s Employment Committee and an active participant of the B20.
She currently serves as member of the Governing Body of the ILO, Employer-Vice Chairperson of the ILO’s Subcommittee on Multinational Enterprises and Chairperson of the IOE Working Party on Corporate Social Responsibility of the International Organisation of Employers (IOE), Geneva.
Previously, she was the Vice-President of the Employers’ Group of the European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels (1996 – 2006).
Ms. Hornung-Draus is member of the German Industrial Relations Association, member of the Board of the “Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (IAAEG)”, as well as member of the Advisory Board of the Birmingham Business School, Great Britain.

Andreas Schaal

Director of Global Relations Secretariat, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)

Andreas Schaal is the Director of OECD Global Relations. In this function he leads and coordinates on ministerial level the external policy and relations of the OECD with over 100 partner countries around the globe aiming to make OECD standards and policies count on a global scale and, thus, contributing to a global level playing field. His expertise includes two decades of conceptional and strategic work on foreign affairs, national, international and global economic policy and global governance. In this capacity, he is responsible for the OECD’s relations with Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and South Africa as well as with the following growing regions, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, South East Europe, Central Asia and Middle East and North Africa (MENA). He supports the Secretary- General’s objectives for a regionally inclusive and globally relevant organisation. In his management functions as Director of the OECD Global Relations Secretariat, he oversees and manages a team of 110 staff and a budget of 24 million Euros.

Alexander Shokhin

President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Alexander N. Shokhin was born 25 December, 1951. Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1974. Doctor of Economics, Professor. Twice, in 1991-1994 and in 1998, Mr. Shokhin held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. In 1991-1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development. From 1994 to 2002 – Deputy of the State Duma, with the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc 'Our Home is Russia', Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets. Since 1995 - President of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. From 2002 to 2006 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group "Renaissance Capital". From 2005 to 2009 – member of the RF Public Chamber. Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Mr. Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the Russian President and Government. He is also an independent director on the Boards of several companies, including ALROSA, Russian Railways, TMK and others.

Front row participant
Yasuhiro Tamaki, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture

Yasuhiro Tamaki

Governor of Okinawa Prefecture

Date of Birth: October13, 1959
Educational Background:
1981 Sophia School of Social Welfare
Professional Background:
October 2018 Governor of Okinawa Prefecture
August 2009 Member of the House of Representatives (4thterm)
August 2002 Member of the Okinawa City Assembly (1stterm)

Moderator
Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries

Esko Aho

Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries

Born 1954, M.Sc. (Soc.Sc.).
In April 2013 Mr. Aho was appointed as an Executive Chairman of East Office of Finnish Industries representing the leading Finnish corporations in Russia. He was also appointed to head the Business Team for Russia – the cooperation venture of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, East Office and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK’s Russia functions.
Mr. Aho enjoyed a long and distinguished career in government service. He served as a member of Finnish parliament for 20 years, from 1983. He was elected to the Prime Minister’s Office in 1991 at the age of 36, making him the youngest prime minister in Finland’s history. During his premiership, Mr. Aho chaired the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. Under his leadership, he also brought Finland into the European Union.
After leaving office in 1995, Mr. Aho spent one year as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 2000. He then served as the president of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, from 2004-2008.
Currently Mr. Aho serves as elected member of the Executive Board at the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also an invited member of Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy. Since founded in 2010, Mr. Aho has been a board member at Skolkovo Foundation, a non-profit organization charged with creating a new science and technology development centre in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo. In May 2016 Mr. Aho was elected to the Supervisory Board of Sberbank.
In March 2015, he was named as Executive in Residence at Aalto University, where he works at the Department of Management Studies at the School of Business. Mr. Aho holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Vaasa, Finland, and the University of Alberta, Canada.

Panellists
Denis Butsayev, Chief Executive Officer, Russian Environmental Operator Public Law Company
Jari Gustafsson, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of the Republic of Finland
Sergei Ivanov, Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport
Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Pekka Lundmark, President, Chief Executive Officer, Fortum Corporation
Elisa Markula, President, Chief Executive Officer, Tikkurila Oyj
Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal
Marc Palahi, Director, European Forest Institute
Mari Pantsar, Director for Carbon-Neutral Circular Economy, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Markku Terasvasara, President, Chief Executive Officer, Outotec
Anatoliy Chubais, President, Association for the Development of Renewable Energy (ADRE); Chairman of the Executive Board, RUSNANO Corporation

Denis Butsayev

Chief Executive Officer, Russian Environmental Operator Public Law Company

Jari Gustafsson

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of the Republic of Finland

Jari Gustafsson has served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment from the 1st of October 2015.
Gustafsson served as Ambassador of Finland to China from 2013 until August 2015. Gustafsson moved to Beijing from Tokyo where he worked four years as Finnish Ambassador to Japan, from 2009 until 2013. During the six years in East Asia he worked in promoting deepening political, trade and economic relations as well as public diplomacy issues. During his leadership the Embassy in Japan was awarded State Security Diamond Act award for effective reaction during the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Before moving to Tokyo Gustafsson was a Board Member of the EBRD, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development based in London. He had a strong focus on investments especially in the infrastructure, environment and clean tech sectors and regionally on Russia.
Gustafsson served as Deputy Director General of the Department for External Economic Relations of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland from 2003 to 2006. Before that Gustafsson was Deputy Director General of the Trade Department of the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 1998 to 2003. During his tenure in these two Ministries he was responsible in foreign trade and economic issues. One of his key responsibilities was bilateral economic issues with Russia.
Gustafsson served as Counsellor in Finland’s Permanent Representation to the OECD in Paris from 1995 to 1998, where he dealt with competitiveness and trade issues. He was also responsible for energy issues in the International Energy Agency IEA and Nuclear Energy Agency NEA.
During the time from 1987 to 1995, as civil servant in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Gustafsson attained a strong expertise in international economic and trade issues. He played a parallel role in dealing with GATT/UR Market Access issues and in adapting EU trade rules in Finland’s accession process to the European Union.
Gustafsson has twice served as an EU consultant. In 2000 he consulted the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on commercial and trade issues in preparation for the country’s EU accession. In 2005 he consulted the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Industry on implementing the EU–Egypt Association Agreement.
Gustafsson is married and he has three daughters and a son. He was born in Porvoo, Finland 1958. He did his Masters in Helsinki University on Political Science.

Sergei Ivanov

Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport

Born on 31 January in Leningrad. Graduated from the Translation Department of the Faculty of Philology of Leningrad State University and then completed higher courses of the USSR KGB in Minsk.
1981-1998 – Worked his way up from an operations officer of the First Main Directorate of the USSR KGB to First Deputy Head of a directorate of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. Had three extended overseas assignments in Nordic countries and Africa. Following the reorganisation of the KGB, he continued work in the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation and then in the Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation.
August 1998 – Deputy Director of the FSB and Director of the FSB Department for Analysis, Forecasting and Strategic Planning.
15 November 1999 – Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Colonel General in reserve.
28 March 2001 – Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.
14 November 2005 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation.
16 February 2007 – Appointed First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
12 May 2008 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
22 December 2011 – Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration.
12 August 2016 - Special Presidential Representative for Environmental Protection, Ecology and Transport.
Speaks English and Swedish.
Married with one son.

Dmitry Kobylkin

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation

Born on July 7 1971 in Astrakhan to the family of engineers-geophysicists.
1993: Graduated from Ufa Oil Institute majoring in mining engineering and geophysics. Started work activity in Shelf geophysical group in Gelendzhik.
1993: Invited to the Tarasovskoye Directorate of Geophysical Works in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area as a geophysical engineer.
1994-1995: Geologist with the Tarkosalinskoye oil and gas exploration expedition.
1996-2001: Personnel Director, First Deputy General Director at Purneftegazgeologiya. Starting in 2000, led the development of the Khancheiskoye field and managed oil and gas exploration there.
May 2001: Appointed General Director of Khancheineftegaz.
From 2002: First Deputy Head of the Administration of Purovsky District, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.
2003: Graduated from the occupational retraining institute at the Ural Academy of Public Administration specializing in State and Municipal Management.
2005: Elected Head of the Purovsky District.
2009: Included in the personnel pool of the President of the Russian Federation.
March 2010: Nominated by the Russian President and confirmed as Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by the region’s Legislative Assembly.
12 March 2015: Appointed Acting Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by Presidential Executive Order.
1 October 2015: Elected Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by the region’s Legislative Assembly. The region reaches stable social and economic development in all areas and becomes of the top 5 regional leaders in the Russian Federation.
18 May 2018: Appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Environment by Presidential Executive Order.
Dmitry Kobylkin has multiple awards and titles of honour including:
Certificate of Merit of the Legislative Assembly of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (2011);
Honorary Citizen of Purovsky District Title (2011);
“For Serving the Justice” Badge of Honour, Federal Arbitration of the Western-Siberian District (2012);
Medal of the Order for Service to the Motherland, Second Degree (by Order of the President of the RF, 2012);
Badge of Honour of the Chamber of Commerce of the RF (2013);
Certificate of Merit by the Ministry for Regional Development of the Russian Federation (2013);
Medal “For Excellence in Emergency Relief Operation”, Ministry of Civil Defence Affairs, Emergencies, and Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters of the Russian Federation;
Badge “For Social Partnership”, All-Russia Trade Union of Education Workers (2015);
Badge of Honour “For input into the development of the legislation of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area”, Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (2015);
Certificate of Merit of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2015);
Medal “For loyalty to the North”, Association of indigenous small peoples of the North, Siberia and Russian Far East (2015);
“Order of the Faithful Saint Prince Daniil of Moscow”, Third Degree, Russian Orthodox Church (2015);
“The Order of Friendship” (by the Order of the President of the RF, 2015)
Badge “For Contribution to International Cooperation” by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (2016)
Gratitude of the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2017)
Married, with three children.

Pekka Lundmark

President, Chief Executive Officer, Fortum Corporation

President and CEO as of 7 September 2015
Born 1963, nationality: Finnish
MSc (Eng.)
Member of the Management Team as of 7 September 2015
Employed by Fortum since 2015.
Previous positions:
Konecranes Plc, President and CEO, 2005–2015;
Konecranes Plc, Group Executive Vice President, 2004–2005;
Hackmann Oyj Abp, President and CEO, 2002–2004;
Startupfactory Oy, Managing Partner, 2000–2002;
Nokia Corporation, various executive positions, 1990–2000;
Key positions of trust: East Office of Finnish Industries, Member of the Board. Fortum Foundation, Chairman of the Board.

Elisa Markula

President, Chief Executive Officer, Tikkurila Oyj

B. 1966.
M.Sc. (Econ.) International Marketing, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration.
2010 - Senior Vice President, Paulig Group, Managing Director, Oy Gustav Paulig Ab (Coffee division).
2006−2009 - Country Manager, Oy Suomen LEGO Ab (Finland), Member of the Management Team, Nordic-Benelux Business Unit.
2003−2006 - Sales Director, Oy Snellman Ab.
2000−2003 - Key Account Manager and Trade Marketing Manager, Oy SCA Hygiene Products Ab.
1998−1999 - Brand Manager, Oy SCA Hygiene Products Ab.
1993−1998 - Area Marketing Manager, Fazer Chocolates Ltd, (1994-1995 based in St. Petersburg, Russia).
Board memberships:
2015 - Olvi Oyj (listed).
2016 - President, European Coffee Federation.
2014 - The Association of Finnish Advertisers (Mainostajien liitto).

Alexey Mordashov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Severstal

Born in 1965, Alexey Mordashov has been working for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as CEO of Severstal Group and was Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Since the introduction of the new structure of corporate governance in December 2006 Mr. Mordashov has been CEO of Severstal. From December 2014 till June 2015 Alexey served as CEO of AO "Severstal Management" - managing organization of PAO Severstal. In May he was elected as Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors.
Vice-Chairman of World Steel Association. Head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO. Serves on the Entrepreneurial Council of the Government of Russian Federation. Co-chairman of the “Trade as a Global Driver” Taskforce of the “Business 20” of “Group of Twenty”. Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council. Vice-President of Russian-German chamber of commerce, member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues. Member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (UK).

Marc Palahi

Director, European Forest Institute

Marc Palahí is the Director of the European Forest Institute and responsible for leading the organisation as an interface between science, policy and society. Marc has a PhD in forestry and is an expert on forests and global change. He has written articles about the transformational role of forests in fighting climate change and developing a European bioeconomy. Marc believes that as we are facing unprecedented global challenges, such as climate change, water, energy and food security, migration crisis and biodiversity loss, science is more important than ever – and science needs to partner with media to have impact. Solving the global issues needs more scientists speaking like journalists and more journalists thinking like scientists.

Mari Pantsar

Director for Carbon-Neutral Circular Economy, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra

Mari Pantsar leads the Carbon-neutral circular economy theme at Finnish Innovation fund Sitra. She steers the strategy of the theme and ensures that all activities related to it direct Finland towards a more ecologically sustainable and competitive society.
Mari has about 20 years’ experience of managerial tasks in the development of cleantech and circular economy business in the private and public sector and on several companies’ boards. She has a doctorate in philosophy and holds the title of docent at the University of Helsinki and at Lappeenranta University of Technology. Among others, she is a board member of International Institute for sustainable Development.
Mari believes that ecological sustainability is not an alternative, but a starting point – and a vital part of competitiveness.

Markku Terasvasara

President, Chief Executive Officer, Outotec

Teräsvasara, Markku, B.Sc. (Civil Engineering), is the president and CEO of Outotec Oyj since 2016. Before joining Outotec, Mr Teräsvasara was President of Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation Service Division in Sweden. He has been leading Atlas Copco’s Surface Drilling Equipment Division in China and held several other management positions in Atlas Copco. He has also worked as Project Manager and Senior Designer in a Finnish engineering company Pitkälä Oy & Pitla Oy and was Partner and Member of the Board of the company.

Anatoliy Chubais

President, Association for the Development of Renewable Energy (ADRE); Chairman of the Executive Board, RUSNANO Corporation

In January 2014, Anatoliy Chubais was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of RUSNANO Managing Company LLC, which was set up within the scope of the OJSC RUSNANO Strategy up to 2020 envisaging division of management functions and possession of company assets. Since September 2008, Anatoly Chubais has headed state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies and, since it was transformed into an open joint-stock company in March 2011, had held the position of Chairman of the Executive Board of OAO RUSNANO.
From 1998 to 2008, Anatoly Chubais headed up RAO UES of Russia. From 1997 through 1998 he was First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and from 1996 through 1997 Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Executive Office. From 1992 to 1996 he was Deputy Prime Minister and then First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for economics and financial policy. From 1995 to 1996, Anatoly Chubais was the Russian Federation manager in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 1991–1994 saw him as Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for management of state property, when he authored and co-ordinated the Russian privatisation programme. Earlier, in 1990–1991, he was Vice-Chairman and then First Vice-Chairman of the Leningrad Soviet executive committee.

Front row participant
Aleksey Kozlov, Member of the Management Board, Managing Director, SIBUR

Aleksey Kozlov

Member of the Management Board, Managing Director, SIBUR

Year of birth: 1982.
Education: Moscow State Law University. Ph.D. in Law.
All positions held during the last five years:
Since 2015: member of the Issuer’s Management Board (OOO SIBUR) – member of the Management Board – Managing Director, Administrative Support and GR.
From 2012 to 2015: Head of the Department of Social Development of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Moderator
Alexander Kalinin, President, All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses OPORA RUSSIA

Alexander Kalinin

President, All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses OPORA RUSSIA

Born on November 4, 1966 in the city of Chelyabinsk.
In 1989 graduated with honors from the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute, specialization in robototronics, diploma qualification in electrical engineering.
From 1989 to 1991 has undertaken postgraduate training program at the Department of Engineering Economics of the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute.
In 1991 founded a wholesale and retail company engaged in export and import operations. Fluent in spoken English.
In 1995-1998 has graduated from the Ural Academy of Public Administration with a degree in law.
In 1998 invested in the creation of a manufacturing company. The company designs and manufactures motor control centers, co-author of an invention patent.
In 2002 became a founding member of All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium Business “OPORA RUSSIA”.
In 2005 was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional office of “OPORA RUSSIA”.
In 2007 was elected to the Board of “OPORA RUSSIA”.
In 2012 was elected first Vice-President of “OPORA RUSSIA” on energy, infrastructure and cluster policy.
Since 2013 – member of the Government Commission on Electric Power Development.
In 2013 was elected Co-Chairman of the Staff of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the All-Russian Public Movement “People's Front” for Russia!”
Since 2014 – member of the Board of Directors of JSC “ROSSETI” (June 2014), member of the Board of Directors of RAO “UES” (August 2014).
October 29, 2014 was elected President of All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium Business “OPORA RUSSIA” and Non-Profit Partnership “OPORA”
Awarded with certificates of acknowledgement of the Presidential Administration, Government of the Russian Federation, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, Legislative Assembly of the Chelyabinsk region.

Panellists
Konstantin Basmanov, Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit, Promsvyazbank
Meir Brand, Vice-President, Google Inc.
Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Vadim Zhivulin, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Andrey Nikitin, Governor of Novgorod Region
Anatoly Popov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Head of the Corporate Business Block, Sberbank
Alexey Texler, Acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Region
He Zhenwei, Secretary General, China Overseas Development Association

Konstantin Basmanov

Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit, Promsvyazbank

From 2008 till 2015 Konstantin Basmanov was Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Promsvyazbank PJSC.
From 2015 till 2017 he was Chairman of the Management Board of Vozrozhdenie Bank.
In 2018 he became Head of Small and Medium Enterprises Unit with Promsvyazbank PJSC again.
He is a member of the Board Presidium of OPORA RUSSIA, the All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization of Small and Medium Business.

Meir Brand

Vice-President, Google Inc.

Graduated with honours from Tel Aviv University with a Degree in Economics.
1998 – received MBA from Harvard University
1999-2001 – Director for Business Development, excite@home (one of leading search systems of the time)
2001-2002 – Vice President for Marketing and Sales, ICQ
2002-2005 – Head of Division for SMB Development, Microsoft Israel
2005-present – CEO, Google Israel; was the first employee
2009-present – Member of the Board of Directors, Google Europe
2009-present – Regional Director, Google in Greece and Africa
2015-present – Regional Director, Google in the Middle East, Russia, and Turkey
2016-present – Vice President, Google
Meir Brand speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Hebrew.

Viktor Evtukhov

State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Education:
1993 – Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute with a major in economic cybernetics.
2002 – Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Law.
2004 – Master’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of International Relations.
2003 – Defended his post-graduate dissertation and granted the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
2008 – International Management Institute of St Petersburg (IMISP) under the Masters of Business Administration programme.
Professional experience:
1998 – Elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (second convocation) for the 33rd Electoral District (Moskovsky District) and was twice re-elected in 2002 and 2007.
2009 – Appointed member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – Representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Government of St. Petersburg; representative of Saint Petersburg State University in the government and administrative bodies of the Russian Federation.
2011 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2012 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2014 – Appointed State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation under an order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Vadim Zhivulin

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Andrey Nikitin

Governor of Novgorod Region

Born in 1979 in Moscow.
2001 – graduated from State University of Management.
2007 – was awarded EMBA degree at Stockholm school of Economics.
2002-2011 – held key positions in Ruskompozit Group of companies composed of the largest Russian enterprises which do business in the markets of glass fibre, composite and geosynthetic materials.
2009 — was appointed Director General of Ruskompozit Management Company LLC.
Since 27.07.2011 – held a position of the CEO of the Agency of Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
13.02.2017 – was appointed the acting governor of the Novgorod region by the Presidential Decree.
Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia.
Member of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
Awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class and the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude.
Ph.D. degree in Economics.
Married.

Anatoly Popov

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Head of the Corporate Business Block, Sberbank

Professional Experience
In 1994–1996, worked his way up from Key Accounts Manager to Branch Director in Septima Trade House, the leading distributor of Mars, Cadbury in the region.
In 1997–2001, received a position of Sales Representative in Wrigley (Tumen, Novosibirsk), then, took the position of Regional Sales Manager in the West Siberian Region. Appointed Sales Department Head in a distributor company in the Omsk branch.
In 2002–2009, worked as Regional Director of Sales at SunInBev in the Novosibirsk office. Moved to Moscow and took the position of Senior Vice-President of Sales. Then, he was invited as General Manager to Bulgaria, where he worked till March 2009. Then, he returned to Russia and took the position of Chief Operations and Commercial Officer.
In 2010, appointed Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom in Kazakhstan.
In 2018, appointed Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board in Sberbank.
Education
Graduated from the School of Applied Informatics and Mathematics at the Novosibirsk State University. In 1995–1997, continued his education at the School of Economics and Management at the Novosibirsk State University. Received Wharton InBev Degree of the International development programme in INSEAD on Corporate Finance and LEAP, Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice programme (Singapore and Paris).

Alexey Texler

Acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Region

In 1995 he graduated with honours from Norilsk State Industrial Institute with a degree in Economics and Management in the Metals Industry as a planning engineer.
From 1990 through 2007 he held various positions in JSC Zavenyagin Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant and OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel, where he started working as a specialist and eventually became the General Director of LLC Norilsk Support Complex, a subsidiary of OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel.
From 2008 through 2009 he served as the Head of Administration of Norilsk.
From 2009 through 2011 he was the General Director of JSC Mining and Metallurgical Complex Kazakhaltyn.
From 2011 through 2013 Mr. Teksler worked as the Managing Director and Head of CJSC Polyus Gold Mining Company;
From 2013 through 2014 he held the position of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation;
Since November 2014 he has held the post of First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
On March 20th, 2019 appointed as Acting Governor of Chelyabinsk Region.

He Zhenwei

Secretary General, China Overseas Development Association

Mr. He Zhenwei is currently serving as the Secretary General of China Overseas Industry Association, senior economist, and visiting professor of Dalian Maritime University. In 1986, Mr. He graduated from the Department of Management Engineering in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), and got his Master Degree in Energy Economics from HIT in 1990.
In 1996, he was dispatched to the Economic Counselor’s Office of the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Russia, served as first secretary. In 2003, he came back to China and worked as a consultant of division level in Department of Foreign Investment of the Development and Reform Committee of Heilongjiang Province. One year later, he was in the same position in the Department of Foreign Capital and Overseas Investment of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). In 2007, he was transferred as Deputy Secretary-General in China Overseas Development Association (directly under the administration of NDRC), and he was promoted to Secretary General in May 2016.
Mr. He Zhenwei, with working experience in NDRC, is familiar with the national overseas investment policy. He has accumulated abundant experience in overseas investment from various projects. China Overseas Investment Fair (COIFAIR), founded in 2009 under the leadership of Mr. He, has been successfully held for 8 years, which has huge influence both at home and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. He has led a delegate of Chinese enterprises to conduct investment investigations in many countries and regions, and has made great contribution to the implementation of many investment cooperation projects. As a senior economist and visiting professor in university, Mr. He has delivered speeches to students in higher education institutions like Peking University and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE). He has been invited for several times to the Dialogue program of CCTV Finance Channel.
Mr. He Zhenwei is currently serving as the Secretary General of China Overseas Industry Association, senior economist, and visiting professor of Dalian Maritime University. In 1986, Mr. He graduated from the Department of Management Engineering in Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), and got his Master Degree in Energy Economics from HIT in 1990.
In 1996, he was dispatched to the Economic Counselor’s Office of the Embassy of People’s Republic of China in Russia, served as first secretary. In 2003, he came back to China and worked as a consultant of division level in Department of Foreign Investment of the Development and Reform Committee of Heilongjiang Province. One year later, he was in the same position in the Department of Foreign Capital and Overseas Investment of National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). In 2007, he was transferred as Deputy Secretary-General in China Overseas Development Association (directly under the administration of NDRC), and he was promoted to Secretary General in May 2016.
Mr. He Zhenwei, with working experience in NDRC, is familiar with the national overseas investment policy. He has accumulated abundant experience in overseas investment from various projects. China Overseas Investment Fair (COIFAIR), founded in 2009 under the leadership of Mr. He, has been successfully held for 8 years, which has huge influence both at home and abroad.
In recent years, Mr. He has led a delegate of Chinese enterprises to conduct investment investigations in many countries and regions, and has made great contribution to the implementation of many investment cooperation projects. As a senior economist and visiting professor in university, Mr. He has delivered speeches to students in higher education institutions like Peking University and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE). He has been invited for several times to the Dialogue program of CCTV Finance Channel.

Front row participants
Eva Gutierrez, Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the Europe and Central Asian Region, World Bank Group
Natalia Korotchenkova, Deputy General Director, Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation
Anna Kuznetsova, Member of the Executive Board, Managing Director of Securities Market, Moscow Exchange
Andrey Pavlov, Founder, President, ZENDEN Group

Natalia Korotchenkova

Deputy General Director, Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation

Anna Kuznetsova

Member of the Executive Board, Managing Director of Securities Market, Moscow Exchange

In 1996, Anna Kuznetsova graduated from the faculty of mechanics and mathematics of the M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 1998 from its faculty of economics.
Anna Kuznetsova holds a PhD in physics and mathematics.
From 1999to 2001, Anna worked for NAUFOR and was involved in the creation of the National Quotation System and development of the Complex Information Disclosure System.
From 2001 to 2004, Ms. Kuznetsova worked for RTS. Starting from 2003 she served as Head of the New Markets Development Department at NP RTS.
In 2004–2006, Ms. Kuznetsova worked as Executive Director of REGION Brokerage Company where she was in charge of the organization of work and interaction between the Company`s subdivisions. From 2006 to 2008, Ms. Kuznetsova served as Vice President of the Not-for-profit partnership "Russian Trading System" Stock Exchange" and Deputy CEO of OJSC RTS. From 2008 to 2013, Ms. Kuznetsova held the position of Deputy CEO and from 2013 to 2016, CEO of MICEX Stock Exchange. She currently serves as a member of the Executive Board and Managing Director in charge of the Moscow Exchange Equity & Bond Market, Investment and Innovation Market as well as Indices and Market Data Division.

Andrey Pavlov

Founder, President, ZENDEN Group

Welcoming address
Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO

Moderator
Sergei Brilev, Anchor, Deputy Director, Russia TV Channel; President, Bering Bellingshausen Institute for the Americas

Sergei Brilev

Anchor, Deputy Director, Russia TV Channel; President, Bering Bellingshausen Institute for the Americas

Russian TV presenter, writer and public figure. Deputy Director of the Rossiya TV channel for special informational projects, President of the Bering-Bellingshausen Institute for Both Americas (Montevideo), member of the Praesidium of the Foreign and Defence Policy Council (Moscow), the only Russian journalist to have interviewed both the last two Presidents of the Russian Federation and the USA: Putin and Medvedev, Bush and Obama.
Born 24 July 1972 in Havana (Cuba).
Graduated from MGIMO MID RF (1995, Moscow), the Montevideo Institute of Foreign Languages (1991, Uruguay), and finished BBC courses (1995, London).
Career:
1990–1993: Komsomolskaya Pravda. Trainee, scholarship holder, correspondent-intern in the department of science and education.
1993–1995: Moscow News. International department special correspondent. In parallel, Moscow correspondent of the Uruguay El Observador Económico and the Argentinian La Razón, as well as Russian State Duma Latin America expert.
Since 1995: Rossiya (RTR) TV channel, including:
1995–1996: Vesti special correspondent (including during the First Chechen War).
1996–2001: Bureau Chief in London.
First broadcast as presenter on 11 September 2001 (day of the terrorist acts in the USA).
2001–2003: presenter of evening Vesti.
2003–2007: presenter of Vesti Nedeli, Deputy Director, Directorate of information programmes.
Since 2008: presenter of the Vesti on Saturday programme, Deputy Director of Rossiya TV channel.
Author of a multitude of documentary films: Secret of Three Oceans, Constitutional Practice, Duma Thinking, Right to Right, Heavy Oil, Another Coal, The Caribbean Crisis. An Incomprehensible Story, Nazarbayev’s Line, etc.
Author of the books: Forgotten Allies in World War II (2012) and Fidel. Football. Falklands (2008).
One of the main spheres of his professional activity is interviewing heads of state. In particular, in Latin America: Chavez (Venezuela), Ortega (Nicaragua), Correa (Ecuador), Morales (Bolivia), Sanguinetti (Uruguay), Bachelet (Chile) and so on.
By order of the Russian President, awarded the Order of Friendship, the medals 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg and 1000th Anniversary of Kazan (2005). Was the finalist and winner of the TEFI awards many times.
Speaks English and Spanish fluently.

Panellists
Andrey Adrianov, Vice-President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Rene Berkvens, Chief Executive Officer, Damen Shipyards Group NV
Tero Vauraste, Chairman, Arctic Economic Council; President, Mariadi Oy
Alexey Rakhmanov, President, United Shipbuilding Corporation
Paul Holthus, Founding President, Chief Executive Officer, World Ocean Council
Sergey Emdin, Chief Executive Officer, Tele2

Andrey Adrianov

Vice-President, Russian Academy of Sciences

Rene Berkvens

Chief Executive Officer, Damen Shipyards Group NV

René H. Berkvens, Chief Executive Officer, Damen Shipyards Group
During the past 30 years René H. Berkvens has held many different positions within the Damen Shipyards Group.
Starting in Sales (Africa). He became sales director for the Americas during the ‘90’s.
Particular emphasis was given on setting up joint ventures (Cuba, Brasil) as well as total further development of the (Latin) American market for products of the Damen Shipyards Group.
He headed Damen Shipyards Gorinchem (workboats) between1998-2000.
In 2000 he became Managing Director of Royal Schelde, which was acquired by Damen Shipyards Group from the Dutch government. Royal Schelde is the premier warship builder in the Netherlands. Much effort was put into the profitable integration into the Damen Shipyards Group. In that same period, René Berkvens, also attended the mega yacht building activity of Damen Shipyards Group as well as the ship repair division.
René Berkvens has been a member of the Executive Board of Damen Shipyards since 2000 and became CEO of the Damen Shipyards Group as per 2006.
René Berkvens is a naval architect, married and has 3 children. He is active in various boards, trade associates and community activities.

Tero Vauraste

Chairman, Arctic Economic Council; President, Mariadi Oy

Mr. Tero Vauraste, 51, is the owner and Managing Director of Mariadi ltd. an Arctic and maritime consultancy agency since 2018. He has served as President and CEO of Arctia 2009-2018, a Finnish polar maritime services company in icebreaking, research and oil spill response operating 11 icebreakers in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic. In 2007-2009 he was Managing Director of Hertz Car Rental in Finland and in 2001-2007 SVP with Finnair, managing airport ground handling in Arctic conditions in Northern Europe.
He is Chairman of the Arctic Economic Council. He is also chairing the Maritime sub-committee of the Finland-China innovation Committee.
He has a degree of MSc in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management / Leicester University and a Naval officer’s degree from the Finnish Naval Academy being a Lieutenant-Commander (Ret).
He has served as a vessel master, special unit commander and as a SAR instructor in Finnish Coast Guard.
He is the Chairman of Finnish Arctic Society and a member of Advisory Board of Finnish Lifeboat Institution. He has various other positions of trust.
He has provided many papers in terms of Arctic economic development and is a known speaker in the international Arctic fora.

Alexey Rakhmanov

President, United Shipbuilding Corporation

Alexey Rakhmanov was born on July 18, 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 2003 he graduated from the School of Business at the University of Chicago with a degree of Master of Business Administration. In the early stages of his career, he held various positions in the public and private entities. In 1996 he joined international auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young where he worked until 2002. Between 2002 and 2008 he served as Director for Strategy and Business Development at JSC Severstal-Auto. In July 2008 he was appointed Director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Agricultural Machinery at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, and in March 2012 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Since June 2014 he has been President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC).
Alexey Rakhmanov is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SPbSMTU), Chairman of the Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Equipment Committee of the Russian Engineering Union, Member of the Russian Engineering Union Management Board.
Head of the Working Group on improvement of legislation in the field of state defense order at the State Duma Commission on Legal Support of Development of Defense-Industrial Organizations of the Russian Federation.
Deputy Chairman of the Council on Shipbuilding of Russia’s Military-Industrial Commission.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Sevastopol State University.
Chairman of the Expert Council on the development of shipbuilding industry and marine equipment at the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Vice-President of the Association “League of Support to the Defense Industry Enterprises”.
Member of the Board of Directors of JSC USC, JSC Avrora Research and Production Association, JSC Far Eastern Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Center.
Co-Chairman of the Russian - Finnish Business Council.
Chairman of the Russian - South Korean Business Council.
Awarded the Order of Friendship, conferred the title "Honored Mechanical Engineer".

Paul Holthus

Founding President, Chief Executive Officer, World Ocean Council

Paul Holthus founded and leads the World Ocean Council (WOC) - the international business leadership alliance on “Corporate Ocean Responsibility” - where he brings together shipping, oil/gas, seabed mining, fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, offshore renewables, submarine cables, ports, investment and other sectors to create industry leadership and collaboration in ocean sustainable development.
Paul has worked in over 30 countries, with companies, communities, industry associations, UN agencies, NGOs, foundations and governments to develop practical solutions to ocean sustainable development. He has held senior positions with UN Environment and with several international organizations, including as: Deputy Director, IUCN Global Marine Programme; head of the Asia Pacific Marine Program, The Nature Conservancy.
Paul is a frequent speaker at the international business and industry conferences, was invited to be on the UN Secretary General’s ocean expert advisory panel for Rio+20, is the only ocean industry organization representative to be invited to address the UN General Assembly and is on a growing number of international ocean industry boards. He is a graduate of the University of California and University of Hawaii, with advanced degrees/certificates in marine resources and international business. He was a Fulbright scholar in Australia and is an East-West Center alum.

Sergey Emdin

Chief Executive Officer, Tele2

Sergey Emdin was born May 20, 1971 in Leningrad. In 1994 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State University and the Kansas State University. In 1998 studied at the Harvard Business School and 2008 graduated from the Irkutsk State Technical University. He holds a PhD in Economics. Work experience: 1994−2000 he worked in the Moscow branch of McKinsey & Co. In 2000 became first deputy CEO of Ulyanovsky Avtozavod. Since 2001 occupied senior management positions at enterprises of Severstal Group. In 2002 joined JSC Irkutskenergo, held the post of the company’s CEO in 2005−2008, between June 2009 and March 2010. Between May 2008 and May 2009, he worked as CEO of LLC Evrosibenergo. From April 2010 to February 2016 Sergey Emdin held the post of CEO at LLC Air Gates of Northern Capital. In February 2016, Sergey Emdin took up the post of CEO at Tele2. Married, has three children.

Front row participants
Viktor Olersky, Member of the Board of Directors, Sovcomflot
Yury Tsvetkov, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation; Head, The Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport

Viktor Olersky

Member of the Board of Directors, Sovcomflot

Yury Tsvetkov

Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation; Head, The Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport

Born 07 July 1965 in Veliky Novgorod.
Graduated from Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, majoring in Maritime Navigation.
Started the career as a second-class sailor on the Suntar fishing vessel of the Northeast Naval Fleet Administration (SVUMF) in Tiksi.
Rose in the ranks from the fourth to the second mate on the ships of the Baltic Shipping Company and the Unicom Company (Cyprus).
Received training at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration majoring in Economics and Company Management, Economic and Public Finance Management, the Durham University Business School, Great Britain, the Maastricht School of Management, Netherlands, the Columbia University Business School, USA.
1996–2008 – worked in the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he supervised budgetary expenditures for investments, construction, federal funds and the banking system, and then he was responsible for the units of transport, communications, informatics and road industry.
From January to July 2008 – Deputy Director General – Head of the Internal Control and Corporate Risk Management Unit of Sovcomflot
2008–2009 – First Vice President of OAO United Shipbuilding Corporation
2009–2012 – Deputy Director General – Head of the Internal Audit Unit of OAO Sovcomflot
Since 2012 – president of PAO Novoship, the largest Russian shipping company on the Black Sea.
In August 2018 was appointed Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation – Head of the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport.

Moderator
Alexey Repik, President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm

Alexey Repik

President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm

Born in Moscow, Russia on 27 August 1979.Graduated from the State University “Higher School of Economics”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.Since 1995 in Healthcare and Pharmaceutics.R-Pharm Founder. President of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), actively participating in the improvement of investment climate in the Russian Federation and the establishment of the regional investment standard.Member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.Member of the Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy.Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of Commission on Investment Climate.Representative (public ombudsman) of the Commissioner of the Presidential Council on the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs on issues related to the protection of the rights of foreign investors.Board-member and Co-chairman of Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on pharmaceutical and medical industry.Co-Chairman of the National Rating CommitteeMember of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and technologies).Member of the Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives".

Panellists
Igor Kagramanyan, First Deputy Chair, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Sergey Morozov, Governor of Ulyanovsk Region
Xavier Rolet, Chief Executive Officer, CQS; Chairman of the Board of Directors, PhosAgro; Former Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group Plc (2009 – 2017)
Sergey Fakhretdinov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Management Company Ruscompozit
Michail Chachin, Vice President, Sberbank
Svetlana Chupsheva, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Mikhail Yugay, General Director, International Medical Cluster Foundation

Igor Kagramanyan

First Deputy Chair, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Born on April 30, 1962 in Kaluga region.
In 1986 he graduated from the Yaroslavl Medical Institute with a degree "Doctor (general phisician)". From 1986 - 1991 went from doctor-intern to the head of department in the Yaroslavl regional clinical psychiatric hospital. 1994 - 2007 - Vice Rector of the Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. In 2000 graduated from the Yaroslavl State University with a degree "Lawyer".
In 2007 joined the Department of Health and Pharmacy Yaroslavl region, where he first held the position of the first deputy director of the department, then director of the department . PhD in economics. Was the recipient of numerous awards, including a medal "20years of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan", "For Service to the Motherland» of 2-nd degree , "For the community in the name of salvation", the medal of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation "Excellent Health", badge of honor of the Governor of the Yaroslavl region "For his services in education - high school".
By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation on June 18, 2012 № 1007-r was appointed as Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation.

Sergey Morozov

Governor of Ulyanovsk Region

Sergey Morozov was born on September 6, 1959 in Ulyanovsk. After graduating from high school, he worked as a machine operator at a furniture factory. He served in the Pacific Fleet from 1977 to 1980.Since 1981 he has worked at the law-enforcement bodies. He graduated from the All-Union Legal Institute with a major in law. He worked his way up from a criminal investigation inspector at the district office of internal affairs up to the head of a special anti-drug trafficking office of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ulyanovsk Region. In 1995, he was appointed head of the Internal Affairs Department of Dimitrovgrad. In December 2000 he was elected Mayor of Dimitrovgrad. In 2003, Dimitrovgrad won a federal competition and was granted the title of the “Cultural Capital of the Volga Region of 2004”. He has twice been awarded special government prizes for achievements in municipal improvements.In December 2004 Mr. Morozov was elected Head of the Administration of the Ulyanovsk Region. On March 28, 2006, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Region approved Mr. Morozov’s candidacy for Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region as submitted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 6, 2011, he was re-elected as Governor for a new term.Mr. Morozov has a PhD in Economy. He defended his dissertation on the subject “Formation of a socioeconomic development strategy for the region”.He is married with five children: two sons and three daughters.

Xavier Rolet

Chief Executive Officer, CQS; Chairman of the Board of Directors, PhosAgro; Former Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group Plc (2009 – 2017)

Xavier R. Rolet was the CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) from May 2009 to December 2017. Under his leadership, the company acquired MillenniumIT (2009), Turquoise Holdings Ltd (2010), FTSE Group (2011), TRS (2011), GATElab Srl (2012), EuroTLX Srl (2013), LCH.Clearnet (2013), Bonds.com (2014), Exactpro(2015), XTF (2015) and the Frank Russell Company (2014) from Northwestern Mutual, which in October 2015 sold its asset management division to TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners. In 2016, he acquired Mergent, Inc. and the Yield-Book & Citigroup’s Global Fixed Income Index Business from Citigroup, making FTSE Russell the largest index company in the world with ca $15 trillion of assets under benchmark. In October 2015, LSE Group launched Curve Global, a new futures exchange co-owned with Barclays Bank, Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, BNP Paribas and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Under his tenure, the value of the London Stock Exchange Group increased from £800 million to £14 billion. Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange Group, Xavier Rolet worked for Lehman Brothers, Kleinwort Benson, CS First Boston and Goldman, Sachs & Co.
After graduating from the KEDGE Business School with an MSc in management science and finance in 1981, Xavier served as a second lieutenant and instructor at the French Air Force Academy, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1984 and a post-graduate degree from Paris-based IHEDN (Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence) in 2008.
Xavier then became a member of the European Securities Markets Expert Group of the European Commission, a member of the French Government’s Conseil Stratégique de l’Attractivité(“Strategic Council for Attractiveness”), a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, and a member of Chatham House in London.
Xavier is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia University Business School, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments FSCI (Hon), and was a member of the Financial Services Trade and Investment Board of HM Treasury (FSTIB). Since Oct 2017, he has been a member of the Committee of Expert Advisers at the Department for International Trade. He was also a member of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group and was a member of the Governor of the Bank of England’s Financial Services Forum and of the Bank of England’s Open Forum. In October 2015, he was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In December 2015, he was appointed Echansonnier ‘A Camera Paramenti’ of the Echansonnerie de Châteauneuf-du-Pape. In January 2016, President of France Francois Hollande made him a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. In July 2016, he was made an Officer of the Royal Sharifian Order of Al-Alaoui (Order of OuissamAlaouite) by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. In 2017, the highly respected Harvard Business Review included him on their list of the best-performing 100 CEOs in the world. Futures & Options World awarded him its 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the same Lifetime Management award in 2018 from both Risk Magazine and the City of London Wealth Management Association. In April 2018, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Young CEOs Business Summit in Atlanta, USA.
He was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation (Орден Дружбы) by Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko on behalf of Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov.

Sergey Fakhretdinov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Management Company Ruscompozit

Born on 10 May 1969 in Bashkortostan.
1993 – Graduated from Ufa State Aviation Technical University with a major in economics and engineering management.
2002 – Head of the Board of Directors OJSC STEKLONiT.
2002-2014 – A regional enterprise under Mr Fakhretdinov’s leadership became one of the leaders in the composite and geosynthetic industry – RUSCOMPOZIT Group of Companies.
2004 – Obtained an MBA at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Mr Fakhretdinov was actively involved in public activities at the time, establishing and managing the industry association Union of Composite Manufacturers, which united the largest enterprises manufacturing materials, raw commodities and products made from composites.
2007 – Member of the Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia) General Council.
2014 – Elected to the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, where he is a member of the Commission on the Matters of Investment Climate. Mr Fakhretdinov is also a member of the Advisory Council under the Government of the Russian Federation, the RF Ministry of Transport’s Coordinating Council for the Development of SME in Transportation, heads a working group on the development and monitoring of the National Entrepreneurial Initiative road map “Expanding the access of small and medium businesses to procurements by infrastructure monopolies and companies with government participation”.

Michail Chachin

Vice President, Sberbank

Michail Chachin, senior managing Director – Director of Department on work with regional clients in the public sector.
Michail was born in 1968. He graduated from all-Union financial-economic Institute with a degree in "Finance and credit". In 2000 he has finished the Academy of national economy under the government of the Russian Federation with a degree in "management". In 2012 he has successfully held a training program for the development of senior executives in London Business School.
Michail works in Sberbank since 1996, he has gone from Deputy Director of the credit Department of the Tula head office, Director of sales and service to corporate clients and small businesses clients of Srednerussky Bank, Deputy Chairman of the Srednerussky Bank Manager of the head office of the Moscow region, Senior managing Director-Director of Department on work with regional clients in the public sector to Vice President.
He has experience managing corporate and retail business over 20 years. He responsible for interaction and development of relations with regional Executive authorities and industry ministries, financial bodies of subjects of the Russian Federation and municipalities, development corporations, industry funds, public enterprises and institutions.
Michail is married and has two sons.

Svetlana Chupsheva

General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

Svetlana Chupsheva was born in Prague. In 2001 she graduated from Samara State Academy of Economics with Honors.Commencing from 2000 Svetlana Chupsheva worked at the Central Department of the Bank of Russia for Samara Region, then at the Government of Samara Region.From 2004 she held position of the Director General of the Rating Agency of the Government of Samara Region, and was the head of the State Institution Agency for Economic Development of Samara Region.From 2009 – adviser to the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of Samara Region – Ministry of Economic Development, Investment and Trade of Samara Region, then adviser to the Chairman of the Board of the CB Regional Credit, LLC.From 2011 – corporate director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). On August 10, 2015 she was appointed as the line director of the Social Projects of the ASI.From 2017 – Director General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.She is awarded with the Certificate of Merit issued by the President of the Russian Federation, she has the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the President of the Russian Federation and the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the Mayor of Moscow.She brings up four children.

Front row participants
Irina Potekhina, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation
Pavel Seleznev, Chairman, Public-Private Partnership Development Center; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Avtodor-Invest
Victor Sidnev, Director for Science and Innovation, Institute for Technology Assessment and Development
Anna Shabarova, Vice President for Human Resources and Social Responsibility, Russian Copper Company

Pavel Seleznev

Chairman, Public-Private Partnership Development Center; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Avtodor-Invest

PhD in Economics.
1. Education. In 2005, graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations. In 2010, PhD on developing public-private partnership in Russia.
2. Career. 2005-2007 – senior specialist, VTB Bank. 2007-2009 – Deputy CEO; Member, Management Board, VTB Project Management. 2008-2010 – Board Member, Energocomplex. 2009 – Cofounder, Chairman, Management Board, National Center for Developing Public Private Partnership, an autonomous non-profit organization.
3. Public Activity. Chairman, Committee for Public Private Partnership, Chamber of Trade and Industry. Member, General Council, Delovaya Rossiya. Member, Expert Council, Agency for Strategic Initiatives. Member, Supervisory Council, Federal Center for Project Financing. Member, Working Group for Developing Transportation Related Infrastructure Projects, Presidential Economic Council. Member, Presidium, Council for Public Private Partnership Development, Military Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member, Coordination Council for Public Private Partnership under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Member, Coordination Council for Public Private Partnership in Health Care under the Ministry of Health Care of the Russian Federation.

Victor Sidnev

Director for Science and Innovation, Institute for Technology Assessment and Development

Anna Shabarova

Vice President for Human Resources and Social Responsibility, Russian Copper Company

Born in Sverdlovsk. Graduated from the Ural State Legal Academy in 1999 and gained a post-graduate degree in Crisis Management in 2005. Anna Shabarova's career began in the Public Prosecution Service of Yekaterinburg in 1995. In 1997-2000 she worked as a legal advisor at the Ural Optical Mechanics Plant, and in 2001-2003 she headed the Legal Department of the Regional Crisis Management Centre. From 2004 to 2011 she was the head of the Ural Office of the Strategiya insolvency administrator partnership, before becoming director for legal issues at the Egoroshinskiy Radio Manufacturing Plant, Sverdlovsk Region, until 2015. Shabarova was appointed Vice President of RCC in 2016. She is currently responsible for HR management andsocial partnerships with regional authorities, as well as RCC’s charity projects and initiatives. Anna is member of the board of trustees of the charity fund of the Russian copper company.

Moderator
Nikolay Uskov, Editorial Director, Forbes

Nikolay Uskov

Editorial Director, Forbes

Nikolay Uskov was born in 1970, he is a candidate of historical sciences, from 2016 was an editor in chief of Forbes Russia, from September 2018 is an editorial director of Forbes Russia. In the past he used to teach the history of the Middle Ages at Moscow State University, then headed such magazines as Men’s Health, GQ, Snob in Russia. Nikolay is an author of the work on the history of the church and the religiosity of Western Europe, a number of detective novels and the best-selling book on Russian history "Unknown Russia: a story that will surprise you."

Panellists
Konstantin Vinogradov, Senior Associate, Runa Capital
Maria Drokova, Founder, General Partner, Day One Ventures
Oleg Kivokurtsev, Founder and Development Director, Promobot
Georgy Solovyov, General Director, Co-Founder, Skyeng
Eric Khrom, Founder, Khrom Capital Management
Shiran Yaroslavsky, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Cassiopeia

Konstantin Vinogradov

Senior Associate, Runa Capital

Konstantin has been working at Runa Capital for more than 6 years where he mostly focuses on deal sourcing, due diligence and portfolio development. His primary areas of investment expertise include machine intelligence, cloud business applications and fintech startups, and favourite startup markets are UK and France.

Besides VC experience at Runa Capital, Konstantin worked at several startups, headed national startup competition, co-founded and subsequently sold small hardware company. He holds BS and MS degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (department of innovations and high technologies).

Maria Drokova

Founder, General Partner, Day One Ventures

Maria Drokova is the Founder of Day One Ventures, a venture fund that invests in startups and leads their communications. Day One Ventures has invested in companies such as Superhuman, FutureFamily, DigitalGenius, Domuso, Atoms, CatalogDNA, and Nebia. In 2019, Masha made it onto the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list.

Maria entered the tech industry at Russian Quantum Center, where she worked with Nobel Prize winners and prominent quantum physicists. She later joined Runa Capital as their PR Director and then served as Vice President of Communications at Acronis. Afterwards, Maria launched M&A PR Studio which has worked with companies like WeWork, Houzz, HotelTonight, Gett, and Toptal.

Oleg Kivokurtsev

Founder and Development Director, Promobot

Founder and CBDO of Promobot LLC - manufacturer of autonomous service robots for business.
Oleg born and grew up in a Perm city. He began his robotics career in 2012 and founded Promobot LLC in 2015 after 3 years with a partners. First office of Promobot was in a garage. After four years of beginning startup went from manufacturing of small orders for Perm shopping centers to the production of large quantities of robots for Russian and foreign customers (at the last year company produced 170 “Promobots” and geography grew in a 2 times to a 33 countries). Promobot company has a large contracts with American and middle east companies for a more than $50M. Revenue of a company exceeds $3M per year. Investors estimate the whole business at $30M.

Georgy Solovyov

General Director, Co-Founder, Skyeng

Graduated from Moscow University of Physics and Technology, the winner of the national olympiad in technology. While studying at the university, worked an engineer at the Institute of Solid State Physics. After graduation George held the post of CEO at an online project Kassa365.ru.
In 2008, George had to learn English for an internship abroad. Since Moscow tutors were out of his budget, George asked a teacher from his hometown of Cheboksary to do classes via Skype. This idea turned out to be a great one, and from that time George’s vision for an online language school was born. In 2012, he recruited his 3 friends, Khariton Matveev, Andrey Yaunzem and Denis Smetnev, to help him realize that vision and create such a school.
In January 2014, the team was joined by Alexander Laryanovsky who had previously held the post of Director of International Development of Yandex In August, Skyeng launched its own platform Vimbox that allows to study English in a virtual classroom efficiently and conveniently. As for now, the solution has no parallel.

Eric Khrom

Founder, Khrom Capital Management

Eric Khrom is the founder and managing member of Khrom Capital. Mr. Khrom pursued his bachelor's degree in Finance & Investments at Bernard M. Baruch College in New York City. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Khrom launched the value oriented investment fund Khrom Capital. Started in March 2008, Khrom Capital was inspired by the original 1950’s Warren Buffett partnership. In 2014, Mr. Khrom was selected by Forbes to be featured in their 30 Under 30list.
Prior to starting Khrom Capital, Mr. Khrom was the founder of EEK Development, a company focused on the creation of website and web applications for businesses seeking to grow their e-commerce presence. Before launching EEK Development, Mr. Khrom launched a bankruptcy servicing business in collaboration with Tsyngauz & Associates, a New York based law firm.

Shiran Yaroslavsky

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Cassiopeia

Shiran is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cassiopeia, a startup that helps companies to fosters a healthier workplace by measuring, predicting and preventing offensive behavior. Prior to Cassiopeia, Shiran worked as a product manager, leading both innovative products and teams, and coaching product managers. She has managed complex strategic business efforts both in product and marketing domains. A lawyer by training, Shiran holds a bachelor's and master’s degree in law (Cum Laude). Shiran was featured in 2019 Forbes 30Under30 list.

Moderator
Ekaterina Trofimova, Partner, Deloitte CIS

Ekaterina Trofimova

Partner, Deloitte CIS

On November 20, 2015, Ekaterina Trofimova was elected Chief Executive Officer by decision of the General Meeting of Founders of the Analytical Credit Rating Agency ACRA. Previously, in 2011, she joined the Gazprom team and, since 2012, has been a member of the Management Committee and been in charge of the work of the Ratings Advisory Centre, the Centre for Economic Forecasting and the Corporate Relations Department. From 2000 through July 2011, Ms. Trofimova worked as a financial analyst, Director and Head of Russia and CIS Financial Institutions Rating Group at Standard & Poor’s (Paris, France). Ms. Trofimova was on the analysis board of the ratings agency in Europe and was in charge of the group for awarding ratings to financial institutions. At S&P, she fulfilled a played role in developing and updating the methodology for preparing financial institution ratings. Alongside analytical work relating to major financial institutions, Ms. Trofimova took an active part in developing the concept for the company’s strategic development and HR management in the region. Ms. Trofimova graduated in Global Economics from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 1998 and the Sorbonne (Paris) in Finances and Tax Management in 2000.
January 17, 2019 Ekaterina Trofimova left the post of Chief Executive Officer of ACRA.

Panellists
Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprom
Christoph Leitl, Honorary President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Pierre Morel, Co-Chairman, Trianon Dialogue Forum; Ambassador of the French Republic to the Russian Federation (1992-1996)
Anatoly Torkunov, Rector, MGIMO University
Andrey Fursenko, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Martin Hoffmann, Executive Director, Petersburg Dialogue Forum

Viktor Zubkov

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Gazprom

Christoph Leitl

Honorary President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Pierre Morel

Co-Chairman, Trianon Dialogue Forum; Ambassador of the French Republic to the Russian Federation (1992-1996)

Ambassador Pierre Morel was born on 27 June 1944 in Romans (France). He is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences (1965), of the Paris Faculty of Law at Assas (1966), and of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (1971)
He began his diplomatic career at the Quai d'Orsay in 1971. He started at the Soviet desk, moved on to political-military affairs and participated in the creation of the Planning Staff in 1974. He then served at the French Embassy in Moscow (1976-1979).
He served twice at the Office of the President of the Republic. From 1981 to 1985 as a Counsellor (European affairs and multilateral summits) and in 1991-1992, as Diplomatic Advisor. He participated in the negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty.
Political Director at the Quai d'Orsay in 1985-1986, he was then appointed Ambassador at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva (1986-1990), where he chaired the working group on the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (CWC) in 1989.
He served as Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1996. He was also accredited, while in residence in Moscow, to Georgia (1992-1993), Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan (1992-1996), and to Kyrgyzstan (1993-1996).
He served as Ambassador in the People's Republic of China (1996-2002) and then to the Holy See (2002-2005).
From December 2005 to September 2006 he worked in Paris as advisor to the Policy Planning centre in the French foreign ministry and on specific assignments.
Ambassador Morel was appointed EU Special Representative for Central Asia on 5 October 2006 by the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, and then also for the Crisis in Georgia from September 2008 to August 2011. Since July 2012, he is the director of the Pharos Observatory of cultural and religious pluralism."

Anatoly Torkunov

Rector, MGIMO University

Anatoly V. Torkunov is the Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). He holds an MA and two doctoral degrees in History and Political Science.
Prof. Anatoly V. Torkunov is a leading expert on Russian foreign policy, regional subsystems in Asia-Pacific Region and North-Eastern Asia, history of Korea, history of diplomacy. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including 9 individual monographs. Several of them were published in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Poland and other countries.
Professor Torkunov also holds positions of the Chairman of the Russia-UN Association; President of the Russian International Studies Association; Member of the Academic Council at the Security Council of Russia; Member of the Board of the Russian Diplomatic Association; Chairman of the Curricula Development Association of Russian Schools of International Relations, Co-Chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Channel One.

Andrey Fursenko

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Born on July 17, 1949, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). 1971 – graduated from Zhdanov Leningrad State University; Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. 1971-1991 – junior researcher, laboratory head, deputy director for research, leading researcher at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. 1991-1993 – Vice President of Advanced Technology Centre, St Petersburg. 1994-2001 – Director of Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development, St Petersburg. From 2000 – Chairman of the Academic Council of the Centre for Strategic Research North-West Foundation. 2001-2002 – Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From June 2002 – First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From December 2003 – Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. March 9, 2004 – appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. State award – Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Martin Hoffmann

Executive Director, Petersburg Dialogue Forum

Moderator
Grigory Berezkin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, ESN Group

Grigory Berezkin

Chairman of the Board of Directors, ESN Group

Born on August 9, 1966 in Moscow. Graduated from the Chemistry Faculty of the Moscow State University in 1988, Ph.D in Chemistry, entrepreneur since 1991. Business interests of Grigory Berezkin range from oil and energy sector to media and venture investments.
Major assets owned by Grigory Berezkin are RBC Holding (Russian leading media holding) METRO newspaper (a franchisee of METRO International), energy trading company RES (JV with Italian energy holding ENEL), oil-loading terminals Uyar and Skovorodino, Jolla and Open Mobile Platform (companies developing independent mobile operating system Sailfish).
Grigory Berezkin has vast experience as member of the boards of directors in major Russian companies: RAO UES of Russia, Electric energy monopoly; the First Freight Company, railway freight carrier; SG-Trans liquefied hydrocarbons transportation company; the Russian Railways. In 2015 Grigory Berezkin was named Russia’s best Independent Director by Russian Association of Independent Directors.
Grigory Berezkin is also an active public figure. Since 2008 Grigory Berezkin has been a member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and chairs the Commission on Electrical Energy and the Committee on Corporate Governance.
Grigory Berezkin is a member of the Board of Trustees of Moscow State University. He has supported the University for many years, especially the Chemistry Faculty, both in the organization of international educational projects and in scientific research work in various areas, including molecular biology and bioorganic chemistry.
Married with four children.

Panellists
Natalya Komarova, Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra
Ewa Konczal, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Manager, The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA)
Alexey Lavrov, Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation
Anatoly Pechatnikov, Deputy President – Chairman of the Management Board, VTB Bank
Natalia Pochinok, Rector, Russian State Social University
Vladimir Solodov, Chairman of the Government of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Ilya Torosov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Andras Horvai, Country Director, Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group
Lev Jakobson, Vice President, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Svetlana Yachevskaya, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

Natalya Komarova

Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra

Natalia Komarova was born on the 21st of October 1955 in Pskov Region, she is married and has two children. In 1978 she graduated from Kommunarsk Institute of Mining and Smelting, the faculty of Engineering and Economics, majoring in “Economics and organization of construction” with awarding of qualification Engineer-economist. She began to work at the Kommunarsk Metallurgical Factory as a labor engineer of the laboratory of industrial engineering in 1978. Then she worked as an economist of the planned-economic CCB department. In 1980 Natalia moved to Novy Urengoi of Tyumen Region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. There she began to work in the municipal executive committee as a senior inspector. In 1988 Natalia became the chairwoman of the city planning commission. Then she worked as the deputy chairwoman of the municipal executive committee, the deputy of the City Council. In 1992 she became the first deputy of the Head of Administration in Novy Urengoi. In 1994 Natalia was designated as the Head of the city Administration. That year she was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and as a deputy of the NoviyUrengoy Municipal Committee. On the 16thof March 1997 Natalia Komarova continued working as the Head of the municipal formation of NoviyUrengoy up to October 2000 according to the elections results. From October 2000 to December 2001 Natalia worked as a deputy of the Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, leading the Economic Committee of the Okrug. At the same time Natalia lectures at the University: she is an associate professor of the Social Management of the Yamal Oil and Gas Institute (branch) of the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (since 1999). In December 2001 Natalia was elected as a Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation inYamalo-Nenets Autonomous Electoral Okrug. From 2004 to 2007 she is the Head of the Natural Resources and Nature Management Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. In December 2007 Natalia was elected as the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Electoral Okrug for the third time. In the State Duma of the fifth assembling she continued to be the Head the Natural Resources and Nature Management Committee. On the 8thof February 2010 the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev submitted a proposal to the deputies of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Duma a candidature of Natalia Komarova as the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug –Ugra. At the unscheduled meeting on the 15thof February the deputies in a unanimous vote voice supported her candidature.On the 1stof March Natalia entered the office of the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug –Ugra.

Ewa Konczal

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Manager, The European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA)

Ewa is a CEE Manager at European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) since 2014. Co-founder of the CEE Social Investment Taskforce and launched a CEE Fund Support Program to enable development of small venture philanthropy/social investment funds (up to 1 mln EUR) in CEE, addressing the missing-middle in the financing of the social investment space. Chair of the Board for the first Polish Venture Philanthropy Fund Valores, set up as a joint initiative of the PE/VC community in Poland. Prior to EVPA, for 14 years, Ewa was Poland and CEE Representative for Ashoka Innovators for the Public. Her professional experience embraces also her work in India with Global March Against Child Labor, where she worked with Nobel Peace Award Laureate Kailash Sathyarti. And in Egypt with AIESEC and Egyptian-Polish Businessman Association that she co-founded.
For nearly 10 years, together with her partner, Ewa has been also running the Magic Mountain Foundation, a social business, located in south Poland, using natural horsemanship and mountain sports (rock climbing, mountaineering) in therapy and rehabilitation of youth and adults with different social and emotional challenges, also intellectually disabled.
Among other recognitions she values most the AIESEC Alumni Entrepreneurship & Leadership Award, that she has been presented by her colleagues from student organization. Ewa has a master degree in marketing and management from University of Economics in Wroclaw, Poland.

Alexey Lavrov

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation

Anatoly Pechatnikov

Deputy President – Chairman of the Management Board, VTB Bank

29 January 2018 – present – Chairman of the Board of Directors, JSC NPF VTB Pension Fund.
26 January 2018 – present – Member of Management Board, JSC NPF VTB Pension Fund.
29 December 2018 – present – Chairman of the Supervisory Council, Debt Centre LLC.
21 December 2017 – present – Member of the Board of Directors, VTB Insurance, Ltd.
21 December 2017 – present – Chairman of the Board of Directors, VTB Insurance, Ltd.
27 December 2017 – present – Member of the Supervisory Council, Debt Centre LLC.
14 July 2017 – present – Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board (approved by the Russian Central Bank on 14 July 2017), VTB Bank. Responsibilities: managing the bank’s current operations and structural subdivisions of the Retail Banking arm of VTB Group.
14 July 2017 – 29 December 2017 – Senior Vice President (concurrently), VTB 24. Responsibilities include general and administrative management, coordination and oversight of departments focused on services to high net worth individuals, mortgages, investments, retail banking, car loans, CRM, remote channels, customer returns management, problem assets, efficiency, and general banking projects. Other responsibilities include the organization and oversight of business processes, decision making on the development of business processes, and sale of banking products.
1 December 2016 – 15 March 2018 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board, VTB Forex.
28 November 2016 – present – Member of the Supervisory Board, VTB Forex.
30 June 2016 – present – Member of the Supervisory Board, Post Bank.
30 October 2015 – present – Member of the Supervisory Board’s Strategic Planning Committee, Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending.
25 June 2012 – 25 January 2016 – Member of the Supervisory Board, Post Bank.
1 June 2012 – 13 July 2017 – Deputy President and Chairman of VTB Bank Management Board, VTB 24. Responsibilities: general and administrative management, coordination and oversight of subdivisions focused on mortgages, services to high net worth individuals, investments, problem assets, efficiency, and general banking products; organization and supervision of business processes, decision making on the development of business processes, and sale of banking products.
22 March 2011 – 27 October 2016 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Debt Centre LLC.
Information on professional education:
1992 – Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. Degree: Physics engineering; Specialization: The automation and electronics of physical installations.

Natalia Pochinok

Rector, Russian State Social University

Rector of the Russian State Social University.
Born 04.07.1976
Education
1997 – Graduates REA majoring in Finance and Credit
2002 – Graduates RGSU in Law
2005 – gets PhD in Economics
2014 – becomes a docent, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Career
1999 tax planning department chief specialist at Doveritelny I Investitsionny Bank
1999–2004 taxation manager at Price Waterhouse Coopers
2004–2005 vice-president, Gazprom Bank
2005–2006 Raiffaisen Bank Austria board advisor
2006–2010 diretor of the Kuban branch, Raiffaisen Bank
2010 – advisor to the CEO on regional development, Raiffaisen Bank
2010–2013 – Branches director at the central office of Sberbank of Russia
2013 – First Vice-President of Sberbank NPF
Civil Activity
Member of the Presidential Economic Council
Chairwoman of the State Duma Committee on managing retirement investment
Member of the Civil Chamber of the city of Moscow
Member of the board of RUIP
Member of the board of strategic development of Pochta Rossii
Chairwoman of the industry commission on business education at the Manager’s Association
Head of Expert Committee on professional education at Delovaya Rossiya
Member of the coordination council of UMO of Universities of Russia
First chairwoman of Sociology and Social Work committee

Vladimir Solodov

Chairman of the Government of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Born: June 26, 1982 in Moscow. 2004: he graduated from the School of Public Administration at Moscow State University. 2002: studied at the Paris Institute of Political Studies (France). 2004 to 2007: took a post-graduate course at Moscow State University to become a Candidate of Political Sciences. Since 2005: has lectured and conducted research at the School of Public Administration at Moscow State University, headed the Centre for new public administration technologies, participated in development and launch of a number of programmes for training civil servants, including the Programme for Training of Basic and Perspective Levels of the Federal Reserve of Managerial Resources, under which over 300 civil servants have received training. He has authored over 30 articles on public administration. Since 2013: Head of the department of projects and practices in the area “Young Professionals” of the autonomous nonprofit organisation Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects. He was responsible for organising selection of and support for projects in the area of developing professional staff, with 45 projects implemented under his leadership. He has taken an active part in launching the programme “Global Education”, as well as in organising a number of foresight sessions.

Ilya Torosov

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Andras Horvai

Country Director, Resident Representative for the Russian Federation, Europe and Central Asia, World Bank Group

Andras Horvai is the Country Director and Resident Representative for the Russian Federation.
Until September 2015, he served as Manager of Operations and Portfolio, managing the World Bank Group's Office in Vienna and the portfolio of World Bank-financed projects in the countries of Southeast Europe.
Since joining the World Bank in 1993, Mr. Horvai has worked extensively on Europe and Central Asia, including the countries of Southeast Europe, Turkey and Poland, as well as South Asia. He also served as the World Bank's Country Manager for Croatia.
Prior to his World Bank career, Mr. Horvai held senior positions in the National Bank of Hungary, including that of General Manager, and also served as Alternate Executive Director of EBRD. Mr. Horvai is a graduate of the University of Economics, Budapest.

Lev Jakobson

Vice President, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Lev Jakobson is Doctor of Economics, Vice President, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Professor at the Department of Applied Economics, Academic Supervisor of the Centre for Studies of Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. In 1972, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University, and in 1975 defended his thesis for the degree of the Candidate of Sciences, and in 1988 took his doctoral degree. From 1975 to 1997 – Senior Lecturer, associate professor, professor at the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Since 1997 – Vice Rector, First Vice Rector, Vice President of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Lev Jakobson is currently a Member of the Anti-Corruption Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Member of the Government Expert Council, Vice Chairman of the Public Council under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council for Public Television. He has authored over 300 works on economic theory, public administration, civil society development, social policy and finance, including monographs, textbooks, and articles in Russian and foreign journals. By the Presidential Decree Lev Jakobson has been awarded with the Order of Honour (2009) and Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” 4th class (2012), Honoured Worker of Higher School of the Russian Federation. Lev Jakobson has been honoured with three Presidential Commendations and a Russian Government Commendation. He has been ordered with the French Ordre des Palmes académiques.

Svetlana Yachevskaya

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

She was born on April 10, 1977 in Moscow.
In 2001 she graduated with honors from the International Independent Ecological-Political University with a degree in Jurisprudence.
In 2004 she graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in Financial Management.
Candidate of Juridical Sciences. From 2009 to 2012 she was the Associate Professor of the Department of Legal Support of Management Activities of the Moscow Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the Bar Association "Moscow Law Center", she carried out advocacy.
From 2003 to 2004 she was the Head of Legal Support Section of the Defence and Law Enforcement Ministries and Agencies Military Property Department in the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
From 2004 to 2008 in the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management she held the following positions: Deputy Head of Defence and Law Enforcement and Judicial Agencies Property Division, Head of Judicial Agencies Section.
From 2008 to 2017 she headed the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Since May 2017 she has been in a post as Vnesheconombank’s Deputy Chairman – Member of the Management Board.
Honors:
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian Government in recognition of achievements in economic and finance activities and long-standing dedicated work (2010);
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian President for activities related to fulfilling the tasks and goals set by the Russian President and aimed at enhancing the efficiency of public and municipal services (2011);
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian Minister of Finance in recognition of achievements in finance and economy and long-standing impeccable work (2011);
Second-class medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland for work achievements and long-standing dedicated work (2011).
Civil service class rank:
Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 2nd Class.

Front row participant
Evgeniya Telitsina, Founder, Executive Director, Towards Change Foundation

Evgeniya Telitsina

Founder, Executive Director, Towards Change Foundation

Graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countries of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Historical faculty, Department of African studies. During 2008 – 2009 she was woking in the Red Cross hospital in Addiss-Ababa, Ethiopia.

Since 2019 Evgeniya has been working in non-profit sector in Russia, starting her career from the position of the manager assistant in the small charity foundation in Moscow. Now she is the COO of the Foundation «Navstrechu peremenam» that supports social initiatives for children in Russia. She is involved in different social entrepreneurial projects for children and youth in Russia and also abroad. In 2012 – 2013 she was enrolled in the program «Management of social entrepreneurial projects» of the Highest school of Management in the Federal University of Saint-Petersburg.

In 2016 Evgeniya got the Master degree in the Management of social projects in Moscow Federal University of Psychology and Pedagogy. In 2017 she won the competition for the non-profit managers and studied in Oxford in the program «Social Finances» of Said Business School.

During her work in the Foundation «Navstrechu peremenam» she has organized 8 competitions for social entrepreneurs, including one in Rwanda (Africa). She inspired hundreds of people to develop their social projects and also organized the program of professional support for 35 social entrepreneurs.

She has been attending and speaking at different events, aiming to develop and popularize charity in Russia, to promote corporate volunteering and social entrepreneurship. She is also providing her expertise for different competitions for social entrepreneurs.

Hobby: reading, traveling across Russia, studying of Eastern philosophy

Moderators
Mikhail Gusman, Chairman, Russian National Committee of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication; Vice-President, News Agency World Council (NACO)
Clive Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Press Association Group

Mikhail Gusman

Chairman, Russian National Committee of UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication; Vice-President, News Agency World Council (NACO)

Born January 23, 1950, in Baku (Azerbaijan).
Graduated from the Azerbaijani University of Foreign Languages and the Department of journalism at the Baku Higher School of Political Sciences.
Worked as a Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Youth Organization of the Azerbaijani, Information Department Chief and Director of the Press center at the Committee of Youth Organization of the USSR, Director General of the "Infomol" Association for Cooperation in Information and then was a Vice-President of the "ANKOM-TASS" International Analytic Agency.
In 1998 joined ITAR-TASS News Agency as a Chief of the ITAR-TASS Department for International Cooperation and then became Deputy Director-General.
Mr. Gusman is Russian Federation Representative at UNESCO's Intergovernmental Program for the Development of Communication (IPDC), Executive Secretary of the World Association of the Russian Press (WARP), Vice-President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).
Author of scripts to numerous TV films and shows; author and presenter of the "Formula of Power" TV program.
In 2003 Mr. Gusman was awarded a State Prize of the Russian Federation for the "Formula of Power" television series.
Fellow member of the International Academy of Information, Professor, Doctor of Political Science.
Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation. Besides he was awarded the Ernst Muhlemann Prize in Journalism (Switzerland). He has state awards of Russia, Azerbaijan, Italy and other countries.

Clive Marshall

Chief Executive Officer, Press Association Group

Clive Marshall is Chief Executive of PA Group, the parent company of the Press Association, UK’s leading multimedia news agency and digital content & service provider.
Since taking up the role in February 2010, Clive has led the successful transformation of the business, implementing a strategy to reduce the Group’s reliance on the traditional media sector, and consolidate its position as the preeminent supplier of multimedia content and services to customers in the UK, while the Group has grown profit in several non‐media sectors including racing and betting, marketing services and video streaming.
Clive was previously Chief Executive of the Australian Associated Press (AAP).
With nearly 40 years of experience in the international media industry, he has held senior positions at a number of news organisations, including Canada’s CNW Group, Reed Elsevier Plc and Trinity Newspapers Limited.
In addition to his executive responsibilities Clive is chairman of Baize Group a leading provider of editorial, events and PR services to the motoring industry, a member of the Advisory Board of Sheffield University’s Department of Journalism, and a Trustee of the Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation.

Panellists
Armela Krasniqi, General Director, Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA)
Sergey Mikhaylov, General Director, Russian News Agency TASS
Gary Pruitt, President, Chief Executive Officer, Associated Press (AP)
José Manuel Sanz, Director of International Relations, EFE
Hiroki Sugita, Executive Director, Kyodo News
Fabrice Fries, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, AFP

Armela Krasniqi

General Director, Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA)

WORK EXPERIENCE
23/11/2017-Present Director General of Albanian Telegraphic Agency
01/11/2013–22/11/2017 Director of the Department of Communication and Public Relations
Office of the Prime Minister of Albania
01/04/2007–01/11/2013 Director of Communication and Public Relations / Spokesman of Socialist Party of Albania
01/02/2003–31/03/2007 Media and Communication Advisor
General Directorate of Taxation
2002–2007 Reporter / Anchor Woman / Program Director
News 24 (Private Television) and TVA (Private Television), Tirane (Albania)
www.balkanweb.com
Business or sector Information and communication
01/01/2000–31/12/2002 Director of News Department of Albanian Public Television
01/10/1999–31/01/2001 Anchor Woman / Moderator of Albanian Public Television
01/06/1998–31/12/1999 Anchor Woman / Reporter of Shijak TV (The first Albanian private television), Tirane (Albania)
01/04/1991–01/06/1998 Reporter (part-time) at Albanian Public Radio and Television

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
01/09/1996–01/07/1998 Bachelor in Journalism and Communication
University of Tirana
Fakulteti i Historisë dhe i Filologjisë | Rr. Elbasanit, Tiranë, Tirane (Albania)
01/09/1998–01/10/1999 Master of Science in Journalism and Communication
University of Tirana
Fakulteti i Historisë dhe i Filologjisë | Rr. Elbasanit, Tiranë, Tirane (Albania)
01/09/1994–07/07/1998 High School Diploma

PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Albanian
Other language(s) English – Italian – French
Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Work Practice Work practice in the Presidency of Umbria Region in Italy, attached to the spokesman of the President during the whole 2 months practice. Meanwhile, i was also employed without remuneration from the regional newspaper, "Corriere Del Umbria", acting as a reporter for this newspaper in italian language.
Duration: January and February 2003
Location: Umbria, Italy
Projects Institution: Baltic Media Center
Topic: Woman and Human Rights in Balkans Dates (from-to): 1999-2000 (4 months)
Location: Athens
Courses Institution: South East Europe Institute
Topic: Investigative Journalism (2002)
Location of courses: Montenegro

PUBLICATIONS
▪ The End of Portrets, 1992 (poetry)
▪ The eclipse of silence, 1995 (poetry)

Sergey Mikhaylov

General Director, Russian News Agency TASS

Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhaylov was born in Arkhangelsk on March 17, 1971.
He graduated from the Faculty of International Information (Journalism) of Moscow State University for International Relations (MGIMO), Department of Public Relations.
1990 - 1991 - President, Association of Young Journalists “OKO”.
1992 - 1993 - Co-founder and partner of the “Ya” Corporation” advertising agency.
One of the founders of Russia’s PR industry. 1993-2004 - Founder and Managing Partner, “Mikhaylov & Partners” Public Relations Agency.
2004 - 2005 - Advisor to the President and Board Member, Russian Railways (RZD OJSC).
2005 - 2006 - Head, Public Relations Department, Board member, Russian Railways.
2006 - September 2012 - Head, Corporate Communications Department, Board member, Russian Railways.
From September 17, 2012 - TASS Director General.
Sergey Mikhaylov is one of the founders of the Russian Public Relations Association of (RPRA), Honorary Member of RPRA.
2000 - 2001 - President of the Russia section of the International Communications Consultancy Organization (ICCO).
Member of the Russian Union of Journalists. Author of over 200 publications.
Member of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) and Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
A shareholder and publisher of “So-Obshcheniye” Magazine.
In 2002 and 2003, Sergey Mikhaylov was rated among the 1,000 most professional managers in Russia (Professional Services category) conducted by the Russian Association of Managers and the “Kommersant” newspaper.
In 2006 - recognized as one of the most professional directors of public and corporate affairs in the country, according to the rating of the TOP-1,000 Russian Managers.
In 2011 - took premier place in the rating of the TOP-1,000 Russian Managers of the Russian Association of Managers in the Rating of Directors of Public and Corporate Affairs for 2011.
Included in the personnel reserve of the Russian President.
Awarded the Medal for the Development of Railways by the RF Presidential decree.

Gary Pruitt

President, Chief Executive Officer, Associated Press (AP)

Gary Pruitt is the 13th person to lead The Associated Press since its founding in 1846.
Pruitt became president and chief executive officer of the AP in July 2012. He had also served three terms on the AP board of directors, including as vice chairman.
Under his leadership, AP has continued its long legacy of fighting for freedom of the press and the public right to know. Pruitt received the Constitution Project’s 2014 Champion Award for his work defending the First Amendment and also received the First Amendment Award from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation.
Prior to AP, Pruitt was chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Company, the third largest newspaper company in the United States. During his tenure, McClatchy’s operations included 30 daily newspapers, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee. A First Amendment lawyer by training, Pruitt steered McClatchy toward financial diversification and oversaw robust growth of digital revenue.
Pruitt earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida where he was named the Outstanding Four-Year Scholar. He concurrently attended graduate school and law school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a master’s degree in public policy and a law degree.
Pruitt began his professional career at the Miami law firm of Paul & Thomson, concentrating on First Amendment, libel and public access issues for such media companies as The New York Times and CBS.
In 1984, Pruitt joined McClatchy in Sacramento, Calif., where he served as general counsel until 1991. He managed the company’s legal affairs, including libel and First Amendment issues.
From 1991 to 1994, he was publisher of The Fresno Bee. From 1994 to 1995, he was vice president of operations and technology for McClatchy and from 1995 to 1996 was president and chief operating officer. He was named CEO in 1996 and became chairman in 2001.
In 2004, Pruitt was honored as the Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Florida. In 2008, he was named Outstanding Alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy.
He serves on the board of directors of the Mutual Insurance Company, the advisory board of the International Center for Journalists and the board of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy (CCLP) at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism. He is the former chairman of the Irvine Foundation.
Pruitt was born in Alexandria, Va., but spent most of his youth in Satellite Beach, Florida, a small town near Cape Canaveral. He now resides in New York City. He and his wife, Abby, have two daughters, Katherine and Allison.

José Manuel Sanz

Director of International Relations, EFE

- Director of International Relations - Agencia EFE (Madrid, since March 2019)
- Director of Agencia EFE's worldwide network (Madrid, October 2014-February 2019)
- Head of EFE's bureaus in the United States and executive vicepresident of EFE News Services (Washington, June 2011-September 2014).
- Head of EFE's bureau in Brussels where he coordinated the largest group of Spanish journalists dedicated to cover the European Union (EU). Direct witness of all the milestones of European integration since 1987 (Brussels, 1996-2011)
- Under his leadership, EFE's journalists won in 2004 the European Journalism Award (honorable mention) “Salvador de Madariaga”, sponsored by the European Commission and the European Parliament.
- Creates and manages, within EFE's headquarters, the first on line service on the EU activities for Spain and Latin America, EUROEFE (Madrid, 1993-1996)
- Joined the staff of EFE in Brussels, where he dealt successively with the information related to the European Parliament (as special envoy to Strasbourg, France), foreign affairs and defense (NATO) (Brussels, 1987-1993)
- Member of the first Press and Communication team at State Company organizing 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville (Sevilla, 1985-1986)
- Member of the team that produced the first EFE's Latin American Yearbook (Madrid, 1984)
- Born in Madrid in 1963. Married. Three children.
- He studied Philosophy and Mathematics (Rome, Madrid).

Hiroki Sugita

Executive Director, Kyodo News

He joined Kyodo in 1980 and served as Tehran Bureau Chief, New York Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief, and Senior Feature Writer and Editorial Writer. He has been Managing Chief Editorial Writer of Kyodo since 2016.
He writes about international affairs, and frequently interviews global leaders including George W. Bush and Vladimir V. Putin. His current career includes Planning Committee Member of Japan National Press Club; Selection Committee member of Abe Fellowship Program and Lecturer at Waseda University.　
He is the author of many books including “Kensho Hikaku no Sentaku” (Japan’s non-nuclear weapon policy); “Amerika wa Naze Kawarerunoka” (Why can the United States change?); “Nyumon Trump Seiken” (A Guide of Trump Administration): “Posuto Grobaru Jidai no Chiseigaku” (Geopolitics in the era of Post Globalization).

Fabrice Fries

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, AFP

Fabrice Fries was elected Chairman and CEO of Agence France Presse in April 2018.

He started his career at the French Ministry of Finance and at the European Commission (Jacques Delors’ staff), then moved to the private sector where he held several management positions in media, IT and communication companies: Havas (head of strategy), Vivendi Universal Publishing (CEO of press division), Atos (MD for France), Publicis (Group general secretary, then president of Publics Consultants).

Fabrice studied at French Ecole Normale Superieure and ENA.

Moderators
Evgeny Primakov, Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Journalist; Author of the International Review Programme, Russia-24 TV Channel; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Russian Humanitarian Mission
Nobuo Tanaka, Chairman, Sasakawa Peace Foundation; Executive Director (2007–2011), International Energy Agency

Evgeny Primakov

Member of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Journalist; Author of the International Review Programme, Russia-24 TV Channel; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Russian Humanitarian Mission

CEO and founder of Russian Humanitarian Mission; author and presenter of Global Review program (Russia 24); member of the Civic Chamber of Russian Federation; Council of Foreign and Defense Policy - member of the general committee; Press-secretary of JSC "RTI-Sistema".
Born Apr. 29, 1976
MA in History, Russian State University for Humanities.
Communication Officer and Urban Policy Advisor (UNHCR) (2011-2014)
Chief of Middle East Bureau of NTV Channel (2007-2009) and Channel One Russia (2009-2011)
Expert in international relations and Russian foreign policy.

Nobuo Tanaka

Chairman, Sasakawa Peace Foundation; Executive Director (2007–2011), International Energy Agency

Nobuo Tanaka is the Chairman of The Sasakawa Peace Foundation. As Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) from 2007 to 2011, he initiated a collective release of oil stocks in June 2011. He also played a crucial and personal role in the strengthening of ties with major non-Member energy players, including Russia, China and India.
He began his career in 1973 in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and has served in a number of high-ranking positions, including Director-General of the Multilateral Trade System Department. He was deeply engaged in bilateral trade issues with the US as Minister for Industry, Trade and Energy at the Embassy of Japan, Washington DC. He has also served twice as Director for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) of the Paris-based international organization, OECD.

Key note
Igor Sechin, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Rosneft

Panellists
H.E. Ali Shareef Al-Emadi, Minister of Finance of Qatar
Ivan Glasenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Glencore
Robert Dudley, Group Chief Executive, BP
Neil Duffin, President, ExxonMobil Global Projects Company
Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman of the Board of Directors, President, Chief Executive Officer, Baker Hughes, a GE Company
John W. Wallace, Chairman and CEO, DeGolyer & MacNaughton

H.E. Ali Shareef Al-Emadi

Minister of Finance of Qatar

Education: Bachelor of Science, Finance – University of Arizona, USA.
Languages: Arabic and English.
Board Memberships:
Member and Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Economic Affairs and Investment.
Member of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy.
Chairman of Qatar National Bank (QNB Group).
Chairman of Qatari Diar.
President of the Executive Board of Qatar Airways.
Board Member of Qatar Investment Authority and Chairman of the Investment Committee.
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Qatar Telecom (Ooredoo).
Member of the Board of Directors of Qatar Petroleum.
Governor at the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Governor at the Islamic Development Bank.
Governor at OPEC Fund for International Development.
Governor at the Arab Monetary Fund.
Board Member of Qatar Foundation and Member of its Executive Committee.
Governor at Sidra Medical & Research Center and Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Member of the Board of Lycée Voltaire – Doha.
Previous Experiences:
Extensive experience in the financial sector spanning over 20 years, with progressively higher posts culminated in being the GCEO of QNB from 2005 to 2013. Under his leadership, QNB Group became the largest and most profitable bank in the Middle East and North Africa, with the highest brand value and having one of the highest credit ratings. Earlier, he started his career at the Banking Control Department at Qatar Central Bank.

Ivan Glasenberg

Chief Executive Officer, Glencore

Ivan Glasenberg joined Glencore in 1984 and has been Chief Executive Officer since January 2002. He initially spent three years working in the coal/commodity department in South Africa as a marketer, before spending two years in Australia as head of the Asian coal/coke commodity division.
Between 1988 and 1989 he was based in Hong Kong as manager and head of Glencore’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices, as well as head of coal marketing in Asia, where his responsibilities included overseeing the Asian coal marketing business of Glencore and managing the administrative functions of the Hong Kong and Beijing offices.
In January 1990, he was made responsible for the worldwide coal business of Glencore for both marketing and industrial assets, and remained in this role until he became Chief Executive Officer in January 2002. Mr Glasenberg is a Chartered Accountant of South Africa and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from the University of Witwatersrand. Mr Glasenberg also holds an MBA from the University of Southern California. He is currently a non-executive director of United Company Rusal plc.
Before joining Glencore he worked for five years at Levitt Kirson Chartered Accountants in South Africa.

Robert Dudley

Group Chief Executive, BP

Robert (Bob) Dudley is BP’s group chief executive. He was appointed an executive director of BP on 6 April 2009. Bob joined Amoco Corporation in 1979, working in a variety of engineering and commercial posts. Between 1994 and 1997, he worked on corporate development in Russia. In 1997, he became general manager for strategy for Amoco and in 1999, following the merger between BP and Amoco, was appointed to a similar role in BP. Between 1999 and 2000, he was executive assistant to the group CEO, subsequently becoming group vice president for BP’s Renewables and Alternative Energy activities. In 2002, he became group vice president responsible for BP’s upstream businesses in Russia, the Caspian Region, Angola, Algeria and Egypt. From 2003 to 2008 he was president and CEO of TNK-BP in Moscow. On his return to BP in 2009 he was appointed to the BP board and oversaw the group’s activities in the Americas and Asia. Between 23 June and 30 September 2010, he served as the president and CEO of BP’s Gulf Coast Restoration Organization in the US. He became group chief executive on 1 October 2010. Bob Dudley holds a Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois, a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management, and an MBA from SMU.

Moderator
Evgeniy Popov, Anchor, Russia-1

Evgeniy Popov

Anchor, Russia-1

Evgeny Popov was born on 11 September 1978, in the Russian city of Vladivostok. During his school time, he was hosting the program called “Sakvoyaj” (Travel bag) at the local radio station.
In 2000, he graduated from the Far East State University, Department of journalism. During his study he was working at the various regional TV- and radio stations, including “GTRK “Vladivostok” and “Public television of Primorye region”.
Shortly after his graduation, he moved to Moscow, where he became correspondent for news program “Vesti” at “Russia 1” TV channel.
During 2003-2005 he was reporting from Ukraine, mostly covering so-called “Orange Revolution”.
He returned to Moscow in 2005 and became a reporter for the weekly news program called “Vesti Nedeli” on “Russia 1” channel. His reports were mostly about politics.
In 2007, he was sent to the USA, where he was doing TV reports on various American topics for news programs on “Russia 1” channel. He was also head of the “Vesti” bureau in New York.
In 2013 he moved to Kiev, Ukraine, where he was covering so-called “Euromaidan revolution”. During this period he was working with another “Russia 1” correspondent Anton Voloshin who tragically died while covering the war in East Ukraine in June 2014.
In fall 2013, he started hosting “11 PM Vesti”. From July 2014 until June 2016 he co-hosted the program with Maxim Kiselyov. He was also making reports for the “Special Correspondent” program, such as “Telemaidan”, “Slovyansk. The Blockade” and others.
Since 12 September 2016, he has been hosting political and social talk show “60 minutes” together with his wife Olga Skabeeva.
Honours and awards:
-"Golden feather pen of Russia" was received from the Union of journalists of Russia for "development of discussion platforms on Russian television" (together with Olga Skabeeva).
-"TEFI-2017". Nomination: "Best host of political and talk show of evening prime time" (together with Olga Skabeeva).
-"TEFI-2018". Nomination: "Best host of political and talk show of evening prime time" (together with Olga Skabeeva).

Panellists
Toshikazu Arai, Chief Regional Officer for Russia and CIS, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environment and Chemical Engineering
Vladimir Burmatov, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Ecology and Environmental Protection
Denis Butsayev, Chief Executive Officer, Russian Environmental Operator Public Law Company
Bertrand Camus, Chief Executive Officer, SUEZ
Vladimir Loginov, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Anna Popova, Head, Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)
J.V. Raman, President in Russia, Ukraine & Belarus, Unilever RUB
Richard White, Vice President for Procurement and Sustainability, Anheuser-Busch InBev Europe
Nikolay Tsekhomskiy, First Deputy Chairman – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"
Pontus Erntell, General Director, IKEA Russia

Toshikazu Arai

Chief Regional Officer for Russia and CIS, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environment and Chemical Engineering

Position:
Chief Regional officer for Russia and CIS
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental and Chemical engineering
Project general manager

Biography:
2013.9~ presently occupied position
2013.5~ project general manager
2012 – general manager, corporate planning department
2010 – 2011 –general manager, international marketing department
2010 – entered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental and Chemical engineering co., Ltd.
2006 – 2010 – general manager, machinery department
1977 – employed to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Specialty
Bachelor of Law, Seikei University, Tokyo, 1973 - 1977

Vladimir Burmatov

Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Ecology and Environmental Protection

Burmatov Vladimir Vladimirovich, Member of the State Duma of Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on “Ecology and environmental protection”.
Deputy of the 6th and 7th State Duma of Russia. Elected from Chelyabinskaya oblast (Chelyabinsk region).
Born on 18th of August in 1981, in Zlatoust, Chelyabinskaya oblast (Chelyabinsk region).
Graduated Chelyabinsk state University in 2003, in specialty “State and municipal administration”. Defended thesis, PhD in 2006.

From 2017 to the present -
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on “Ecology and Environmental Protection”.

2016 - 2017
Head of the Central executive committee of the “Edinaya Rossiya” party (United Russia)

2011 - 2016
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the sixth convocation, first deputy chairman of the committee on education of the State Duma of the Russian Federation;

Before being elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, worked as Head of the department of “Political science and sociology” at the Russian Economic University in Moscow.

Member of the General Council of the party "Edinaya Rossiya” (United Russia).

Denis Butsayev

Chief Executive Officer, Russian Environmental Operator Public Law Company

Bertrand Camus

Chief Executive Officer, SUEZ

Bertrand Camus is CEO of SUEZ as of May 14, 2019.
He has been SUEZ’s Senior Executive VP for Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia and Australia since March 2018.
A graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, he joined SUEZ in 1994.
He successively held positions as COO of the subsidiary Aguas Argentinas from 2000 to 2006 and Director of Internal Audit at SUEZ from 2006 to 2008.
In 2008, he was appointed CEO of water activities for North America and, in 2015, Deputy CEO of the Water Europe division and CEO of Water France.
Bertrand Camus was born on February 9, 1967.

Vladimir Loginov

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation

Anna Popova

Head, Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor)

Ms. Popova, M.D., has a degree in medicine and prophylactics, professor in medical hygiene.
Worked as an epidemiologist, chief of epidemiology at Budennovsk hospital, chief epidiemologist in State Center in Serpukhov and Pushino, deputy head of Rospoterbnadzor in Moscow oblast, head of HR or Rospoterbnadzor and deputy chief of Rospotrebnadzor .
After a decree of the government of Russian Federation government N1931 temporary acted as chief of Federal Agency for consumer protection and human wellbeing from October 23, 2013.
Following a decree of the government of Russian Federation N571-p appointed head of Rospoterbnadzor.
Married, has two children

J.V. Raman

President in Russia, Ukraine & Belarus, Unilever RUB

Richard White

Vice President for Procurement and Sustainability, Anheuser-Busch InBev Europe

Richard White is Vice-President for Procurement & Sustainability at AB InBev Europe, the world’s largest brewer. Richard joined AB InBev in 2001 having previously worked in Sales & Account Management roles with PepsiCo & Bass Brewers in the UK. After leading the On-Premise Trade Marketing team in France, Richard moved into AB InBev’s Global Procurement function in 2006 & spent the next 10 years leading a variety of strategic sourcing initiatives in Marketing & Commercial spend categories such as Media & Advertising. Richard then undertook a 2 year tenure running the Agrega JV with BAT, before being appointed to his current role in October 2016.
Richard is a UK citizen, holds an honours degree in Business Studies & French from the University of Plymouth, U.K, and currently resides in Brussels.

Nikolay Tsekhomskiy

First Deputy Chairman – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

First Deputy Chairman – member of the Board. Born on March 21, 1974, in Leningrad. Professional education background: in 1995, 1996, St. Petersburg State Academy of Engineering and Economics, qualification – bachelor of management, manager economist, speciality - management, economics and management in engineering. Science degree PhD in Economics, 22.06.1999. Employment record: in 1995-1998 - Economist, Economist/Auditor, and Expert/Auditor at Ernst & Young (St. Petersburg and Representative Office of Ernst & Young (CIS) Ltd. In 1998–1999 – Accountant, Chief Accountant at Representative Office of Brunswick Warburg (Cyprus) Limited. In 1999–2002 – Financial Controller, Financial Director of Renaissance Capital Investment Group. In 2002–2005 – Chief Financial Officer, Vice President for Finance and Investments at Mobile TeleSystems OJSC. In 2005-2009- Senior Vice President,Member of the Executive Board at Vneshtorgbank OJSC (from01.03.2007 was renamed as Bank VTB OJSC). From November 2009 to December 2011 - Chairman of the Executive Board of Barclays Bank LLC. In 2012-2016 - Adviser to the President of Sberbank of Russia. Vice-President – Director of the Finance Department of Sberbank, Senior Vice-President and Director of the Finance Department of Sberbank of Russia (from 14.08.2015 was renamed as PJSC Sberbank). From March 2016 – Adviser to Vnesheconombank Chairman. From April 2016 – Vnesheconombank First Deputy Chairman.

Pontus Erntell

General Director, IKEA Russia

Pontus Erntell headed the IKEA Retail Chain in Russia on 1 January 2018. He joined the company upon graduating the university in 2001 and started to work as a supply planning specialist in IKEA of Sweden. Later, he occupied various managerial positions including audit in the department on cooperation with production factories, and head of the department on supervision and planning of financial and operational activity of IKEA in Russia. Before the assignment to Russia, he was a Deputy CEO of IKEA in Italy.
Pontus Erntell graduated Gothenburg University (Sweden) in 2001. He received Master’s degree in the London Business School in 2012.
Married, with two children.

Front row participants
Maxim Goncharov, Chief Executive Officer, LafargeHolcim Russia
Kirill Komarov, First Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Corporate Development and International Business, ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation
Natalya Komarova, Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra
Alexander Krivolapov, Managing Director in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus and Central Asia, Tetra Pak
Anton Kulbachevsky, Head, Moscow Department for Environmental Management and Protection
Wojciech Rowinski, Managing Director, Scania-Rus
Valery Seleznev, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Energy

Maxim Goncharov

Chief Executive Officer, LafargeHolcim Russia

Maxim Goncharov was born in Moscow in 1973.
In 1994 he graduated with the honor from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
Starting from 1995 and during 10 years he was responsible for regional sales, distribution and logistics in Philip Morris.
In 2005-2006 was the Customer Relations Director in MTS Russia.
From 2006 to 2013 Maxim continued his career in Philips and in 2012 he was appointed as General Manager Consumer Lighting and Senior Commercial Director Lighting in Russia and CIS.
In 2013 г. Maxim had been appointed as PBU Director in Goodyear with the responsibility for Consumer Tires in Russia and CIS.
2016 - 2019 - Commercial Director in LafargeHolcim Russia (business development in Russia and CIS, launching and implementation company’s strategic projects in the region).
In February 2019 Maxim Goncharov was appointed to the position of CEO LafargeHolcim Russia.

Kirill Komarov

First Deputy Chief Executive Officer for Corporate Development and International Business, ROSATOM State Atomic Energy Corporation

Kirill Komarov was born on December 29, 1973 in Saint Petersburg. He graduated from the Urals State Law Academy and then, after completion of a postgraduate course, received an advanced law degree. In 1996–2000, he worked for YurCon, a consulting company in Yekaterinburg. Mr Komarov continued his career in Renova Group, first as Chief Legal Officer and Project Director, and then as First Deputy CEO of Renova and CEO of Renova–Razvitie. In 2005, Komarov joined the Federal Water Resources Agency as Deputy Director. In March 2006, he was appointed Vice President of TVEL Fuel Company prior to becoming CEO of Atomenergomash, a TVEL subsidiary. In December 2007, he joined Atomenergoprom where he served first as Deputy CEO and then as Managing Director. In 2010, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Atomenergoprom, and concurrently worked as Director of ROSATOM's Nuclear Power Directorate. Since April 2011 Mr Komarov has served as Deputy CEO for Corporate Development and International Business while remaining CEO of Atomenergoprom. Since February 2015 Mr Komarov has served as First Deputy CEO for Corporate Development and International Business while remaining CEO of Atomenergoprom.

Natalya Komarova

Governor of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District – Yugra

Natalia Komarova was born on the 21st of October 1955 in Pskov Region, she is married and has two children. In 1978 she graduated from Kommunarsk Institute of Mining and Smelting, the faculty of Engineering and Economics, majoring in “Economics and organization of construction” with awarding of qualification Engineer-economist. She began to work at the Kommunarsk Metallurgical Factory as a labor engineer of the laboratory of industrial engineering in 1978. Then she worked as an economist of the planned-economic CCB department. In 1980 Natalia moved to Novy Urengoi of Tyumen Region, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. There she began to work in the municipal executive committee as a senior inspector. In 1988 Natalia became the chairwoman of the city planning commission. Then she worked as the deputy chairwoman of the municipal executive committee, the deputy of the City Council. In 1992 she became the first deputy of the Head of Administration in Novy Urengoi. In 1994 Natalia was designated as the Head of the city Administration. That year she was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and as a deputy of the NoviyUrengoy Municipal Committee. On the 16thof March 1997 Natalia Komarova continued working as the Head of the municipal formation of NoviyUrengoy up to October 2000 according to the elections results. From October 2000 to December 2001 Natalia worked as a deputy of the Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, leading the Economic Committee of the Okrug. At the same time Natalia lectures at the University: she is an associate professor of the Social Management of the Yamal Oil and Gas Institute (branch) of the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (since 1999). In December 2001 Natalia was elected as a Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation inYamalo-Nenets Autonomous Electoral Okrug. From 2004 to 2007 she is the Head of the Natural Resources and Nature Management Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. In December 2007 Natalia was elected as the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Electoral Okrug for the third time. In the State Duma of the fifth assembling she continued to be the Head the Natural Resources and Nature Management Committee. On the 8thof February 2010 the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev submitted a proposal to the deputies of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Duma a candidature of Natalia Komarova as the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug –Ugra. At the unscheduled meeting on the 15thof February the deputies in a unanimous vote voice supported her candidature.On the 1stof March Natalia entered the office of the Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug –Ugra.

Alexander Krivolapov

Managing Director in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus and Central Asia, Tetra Pak

Alexander Krivolapov has been with Tetra Park for over 16 years. His professional career in the company started in 2002 in sales department in Russia, where he held a variety of roles.
In 2007 Alexander took on the position of Key Account Manager for Wimm-Bill-Dann in Russia, and then in 2010 assumed the role of Product Director for Tetra Evero® Aseptic in Marketing and Product Development at Tetra Pak HQ in Lund, Sweden. In 2014 he was transferred to the position of Key Account Director responsible for operations with key customer PepsiCo and was based in Moscow. In 2018 Alexander was appointed Marketing Director of Tetra Pak Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Caucasus and Central Asia and held this role until he took over the position of Managing Director of Tetra Pak in the region.
Born in 1978 in Novosibirsk, Alexander graduated from the Novosibirsk State Technical University majoring in Management.

Wojciech Rowinski

Managing Director, Scania-Rus

Valery Seleznev

First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Energy

Moderator
Sergey Gorkov, General Director, Chairman of the Management Board, Rosgeologia

Sergey Gorkov

General Director, Chairman of the Management Board, Rosgeologia

Panellists
Pavel Grachev, Chief Executive Officer, Polyus
Hemant Kanoria, Chairman, Managing Director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited
Artem Karapetov, Vice President, Schlumberger in Russia and Central Asia
Natalya Kasperskaya, President, InfoWatch Group
Dmitry Kobylkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation
Vladimir Litvinenko, Rector, Saint-Petersburg Mining University
Alexander Sergeev, President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Pavel Sorokin, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

Pavel Grachev

Chief Executive Officer, Polyus

Hemant Kanoria

Chairman, Managing Director, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited

A pioneer in the field of infrastructure, Hemant Kanoria has reshaped India's infrastructure landscape with innovative ideas and a strong passion for excellence. "Srei" was conceptualised in 1989 as an initiative marking the entry of private sector in the field of infrastructure, a domain hitherto restricted to public sector. In the last two decades, Srei has been developed into one of India's largest holistic infrastructure institutions with an asset base of around USD 5.5 billion. Hemant's contribution towards inclusive infrastructure development in India has been non-pareil. He is a visionary and a strategist who always believes in offering simple solutions to complex problems. Many of his ideas were first of its kind and created new business sectors. He is known in the country for having unleashed a new wave of rural entrepreneurship. He is also the Trustee of the Kanoria Foundation which, under its umbrella, has entities with a total asset base of about USD 10 billion. The group is at the vanguard of thought leadership in the country, especially in the area of infrastructure development and financing. Hemant has over three decades of experience in industry, trade and financial services. He is currently serving as Board Member in the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, Neotia University and New Delhi Institute of Management. He has held several prestigious positions like President of Calcutta Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the FICCI National Committee on Infrastructure and served on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM-C) besides being a Member of the Regional Direct Taxes Advisory Committee, Government of India.

Natalya Kasperskaya

President, InfoWatch Group

Born in Moscow in 1966, Natalya Kaspersky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics with Diploma in Applied Mathematics.
In 1997, Natalya, together with Eugene Kaspersky, founded Kaspersky Lab and became its CEO. Over 10 years of Natalya’s supervision, a Kaspersky Lab startup turned into a remarkable leader of global IT market boasting $500 million in revenue.
In 2007, Natalya headed InfoWatch, which now dominates the Russian IT market, still actively develops in Russia and the CIS, and successfully enters the global arena. InfoWatch offers innovative and effective corporate data and enterprise protection against information leakage and the most pressing internal and external threats.
Natalya holds multiple awards in Russian and International Business and IT:
• «Entrepreneur of the Year 2016» in Russia according to the global audit company EY, winner in “High-Tech” Category.
• Bronze medalist of “Top-100 most influential Russian women in business” rating.
• “Russian Business Leader of the Year 2012” award honoring her remarkable contribution to the progress of the Russian IT community, according to Horasis, the Global visions community.
• Leader of “Top-1000 highest Russian managers of 2014” in IT according to Kommersant leading Russian business daily and Association of Russian managers.
• Best Technology Business Entrepreneur, Women in Technology MEA 2014 awards, Dubai.
• Nominee as The most influential person from Russia Q1 2015 for input in the IT-industry by BRIC Magazine, UK
• Leader of «Best.ru» rating in Telecom/IT in 2017
• The 30 most inspirational leaders in business by Insights Success Magazine.

Dmitry Kobylkin

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation

Born on July 7 1971 in Astrakhan to the family of engineers-geophysicists.
1993: Graduated from Ufa Oil Institute majoring in mining engineering and geophysics. Started work activity in Shelf geophysical group in Gelendzhik.
1993: Invited to the Tarasovskoye Directorate of Geophysical Works in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area as a geophysical engineer.
1994-1995: Geologist with the Tarkosalinskoye oil and gas exploration expedition.
1996-2001: Personnel Director, First Deputy General Director at Purneftegazgeologiya. Starting in 2000, led the development of the Khancheiskoye field and managed oil and gas exploration there.
May 2001: Appointed General Director of Khancheineftegaz.
From 2002: First Deputy Head of the Administration of Purovsky District, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.
2003: Graduated from the occupational retraining institute at the Ural Academy of Public Administration specializing in State and Municipal Management.
2005: Elected Head of the Purovsky District.
2009: Included in the personnel pool of the President of the Russian Federation.
March 2010: Nominated by the Russian President and confirmed as Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by the region’s Legislative Assembly.
12 March 2015: Appointed Acting Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by Presidential Executive Order.
1 October 2015: Elected Governor of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area by the region’s Legislative Assembly. The region reaches stable social and economic development in all areas and becomes of the top 5 regional leaders in the Russian Federation.
18 May 2018: Appointed Minister of Natural Resources and Environment by Presidential Executive Order.
Dmitry Kobylkin has multiple awards and titles of honour including:
Certificate of Merit of the Legislative Assembly of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (2011);
Honorary Citizen of Purovsky District Title (2011);
“For Serving the Justice” Badge of Honour, Federal Arbitration of the Western-Siberian District (2012);
Medal of the Order for Service to the Motherland, Second Degree (by Order of the President of the RF, 2012);
Badge of Honour of the Chamber of Commerce of the RF (2013);
Certificate of Merit by the Ministry for Regional Development of the Russian Federation (2013);
Medal “For Excellence in Emergency Relief Operation”, Ministry of Civil Defence Affairs, Emergencies, and Liquidation of Consequences of Natural Disasters of the Russian Federation;
Badge “For Social Partnership”, All-Russia Trade Union of Education Workers (2015);
Badge of Honour “For input into the development of the legislation of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area”, Legislative Assembly of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area (2015);
Certificate of Merit of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2015);
Medal “For loyalty to the North”, Association of indigenous small peoples of the North, Siberia and Russian Far East (2015);
“Order of the Faithful Saint Prince Daniil of Moscow”, Third Degree, Russian Orthodox Church (2015);
“The Order of Friendship” (by the Order of the President of the RF, 2015)
Badge “For Contribution to International Cooperation” by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (2016)
Gratitude of the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2017)
Married, with three children.

Alexander Sergeev

President, Russian Academy of Sciences

Pavel Sorokin

Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

During the last 3.5 years Pavel Sorokin worked for Morgan Stanley as the Russian Oil & Gas sector lead and Vice President. In 2014-2015 he was ranked one of the best oil & gas sector analysts in Russia and EMEA in Extel and Institutional Investor. Pavel also used to work at Alfa-bank and Unicredit investment banking divisions and had Senior Accountant experience covering Oil & Gas sector at Ernst & Yong. Pavel headed the Ministry of Energy’s “Energy Research Center” at the Russian Energy Agency which provides in-house research and advice to the Ministry of Energy. From March 2018 he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation.

Front row participants
Alexey Vashkevich, Head, Geological Exploration and Resource Base Development Directorate, Gazprom Neft
Kirill Molodtsov, Aide to the Chief of Staff, Presidential Executive Office

Alexey Vashkevich

Head, Geological Exploration and Resource Base Development Directorate, Gazprom Neft

Kirill Molodtsov

Aide to the Chief of Staff, Presidential Executive Office

Born 14 March 1968 in Leningrad.
Education
Academy of the Ministry of State Security, Law; Federal State Higher Educational Institution Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Global Economy; Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Oil and Gas Production.
Biography
In 1993, graduated the Academy of the Ministry of State Security majoring in Law; in 2003, graduated the Federal State Higher Educational Institution Russian Foreign Trade Academy under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, majoring in Global Economy; in 2013, graduated Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas majoring in Oil and Gas Production.
Since 1998 has been employed in gas mining and processing industry.
2002–2004 – Head of Department for Investment and Project Management, Sibur-Holding JSC.
2006–2008 – Manager, Eastern Siberia-GAS project (Kovykta gas-condensate field, Irkutsk Oblast).
2010–2012 – Deputy CEO, Vice President for Technical and Economic Assessment and 2nd/3rd phases Coordination, Stockman Development AG.
2013 – July 6, 2018 - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
On July 6, 2018, appointed Aide to the Chief of Staff, Presidential Executive Office.
Awards:
Medal of the Oder for Services to the Fatherland, 2nd degree (2017).
Honoured Oil Worker (2017).
Commemorative medal of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games and 11th Winter Paralympic Games of 2014 in Sochi (2014).
Certificate of Appreciation from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (2014).
Award by another agency.
Family status. Married, with two children.

Moderator
Evgeniy Kovnir, General Director, Digital Economy

Evgeniy Kovnir

General Director, Digital Economy

Evgeny Kovnir graduated from the Kiev Suvorov Military School, the Moscow Air Force Engineering Academy named after Zhukovsky, the Russian Economic Academy named after Plekhanov. He served in various positions in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. He was awarded with the Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation For Military Valor of the II degree. He led the implementation of high-tech projects in the media industry, including his own projects. In the Microsoft Russia company, he worked on the media direction and direction of the development of cloud services. Evgeny Kovnir was awarded with Microsoft Circle of Excellence Award. As the director of business development for Media Group Ukraine (SCM), he was responsible for the development of new business lines and key Internet projects of the holding. He headed the Department of Information Technology Development of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation as well as supervised the development of the Strategy for the development of the information technology industry. As a deputy director of the Young Professional project of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, he led the work on the National Technological Initiative. Evgeny is a Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of JSC Russian Venture Company.

Panellists
Alexey Belinsky, Chief Executive Officer, Ctrl2Go
Oleg Bocharov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Jan Van Tetering, Senior Vice President for Europe, Nokia Solutions and Networks
Victor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Skolkovo Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Renova Group
Vladimir Dmitriev, General Director, Kalashnikov Concern
Alexey Dumin, Governor of Tula Region
Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman (Chief Economist) – Member of the Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"
Vladimir Potanin, President, Chairman of the Board, MMC Norilsk Nickel
Rose Schooler, Corporate Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, General Manager, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
Yuriy Slyusar, President, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)
Peter Terwiesch, President, Industrial Automation Business, Member of the Group Executive Committee, ABB Ltd
Borje Ekholm, President, Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson

Alexey Belinsky

Chief Executive Officer, Ctrl2Go

An expert in the field of railway engineering and traction equipment service, as well as the implementation of modern innovative technologies throughout large industrial enterprises. Alexey Belinsky has diverse experience in the field of mining andmetallurgy, financial and strategic consulting, corporate finance management.

For more than ten years he has managed the major Russian industrial companies, including TMH Сarriage Building LLC, RuselectronicsJSC, and LocoTech Group.

Oleg Bocharov

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Jan Van Tetering

Senior Vice President for Europe, Nokia Solutions and Networks

Jan is currently Senior Vice President Europe at Nokia. In this role he leads all operations of Nokia in Europe including sales, marketing, business management, operations and delivery.

With almost 30 years in the telecom industry, Jan is an experienced international business leader with a strategic mindset and always promoting a forward-looking can do attitude. He loves to drive both technological and organizational progress and develop innovative business solutions. Jan is highly regarded by customers, business partners, and colleagues all over Europe as a thought leader and efficient communicator using a clear hands-on approach. He works focused on measurable results and enjoys working in complex organizations across geographical boundaries.

Prior to his current position, Jan served as Vice President Business Development and Operations in Europe. Earlier leadership positions include roles in strategy, business development and sales operations, marketing, and R&D.

Victor Vekselberg

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Skolkovo Foundation; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Renova Group

Born in 1957.
Graduated with honors from the faculty of automation and computer engineering of the Moscow Railway Transport Engineering Institute (MIIT).
In 1990 Viktor Vekselberg founded Renova, an asset management company. Mr. Vekselberg currently holds office as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of companies.
In 1996 he founded SUAL Group and served as its President until 2003 when he eventually chaired the Board of Directors of the Group.
Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Tumen Oil Company from 2002 until 2003. Member of the Board of Directors of TNK-BP from 2003 until 2013.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Company Rusal (UC Rusal) from 2007 until March 2012.
In March 2010, Viktor Vekselberg was appointed as Head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center project. Viktor Vekselberg has been President of the Skolkovo Foundation since June 2010.

Vladimir Dmitriev

General Director, Kalashnikov Concern

Was born in Moscow on August 5th, 1978.
Education.
In 2000 graduated from FSB academy, department "applied mathematics".
Professional history:
2004 - 2011: "Toyota Motor" Ltd, various leading positions in sales planning, pricing and marketing strategies departments
2012, January - August: "Lexus" Russia, director, sales and marketing
2012 - 2015: "Nissan", marketing director for Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus
2016, January - August: "Kalashnikov Concern", marketing director
August 2016 - June 2018: "Kalashnikov Concern", deputy CEO, sales and marketing
June 2018 - present time: "Kalashnikov Concern", CEO

Alexey Dumin

Governor of Tula Region

Alexey G. Dyumin was born August 28, 1972 in Kursk. In 1994 he graduated from the Voronezh Higher Military Engineering School of Radio Electronics.
In 2009 he graduated with honours from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of Russian Federation, and in 2013 – passed professional retraining at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
Is married and has a son.
From 1994 to 1996 - engineer of the Central unit of Russian Air Force complex technical control.
In 1996-2013 – held various positions in the Federal Guard Service. Provided the participation of President of Russia in various activities both inside the country and abroad, including summits oh the "Group of Eight", the "Group of Twenty", SCO, APEC, etc.
From 2013 to 2016 – deputy chief of the main department of the general staff, chief of general staff – first deputy commander in chief of land forces, deputy minister of defense.
February 2, 2016 was appointed acting governor of Tula region.
Lieutenant-General. Hero of Russia. Was awarded with the order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree with swords, and other various medals.

Andrey Klepach

Deputy Chairman (Chief Economist) – Member of the Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

In 1981 graduated from the Economic Department of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, specialty – economist, lecturer of political economics, candidate of economic science.In 1981 – 1991 worked at the Political Economics Department of the Moscow Lomonosov State University.In 1991 – 1998 worked at the Institute of National Economic Forecasting, the Russian Academy of Sciences (lead researcher, head of laboratory). In 1998 – 1999 – Director of the Research Department of the Russian Central Bank. In 1999 – 2004 – Executive Director of the Economic Research Foundation Development Center.In 2004 – 2008 – Head of the Macro Economic Forecasting Department of the Russian Economic Development and Trade Ministry. From February of 2008 to July of 2014 – Russian Economic Development Deputy Minister. From July 2014 – Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman (Chief Economist) – Member of the Board.In 2007 was awarded a title of Honored Economist for improving the Russian financial system, forming and developing its institutions.In 2011 was awarded the Order of Merit for his many years of exceptional work and public activities.

Vladimir Potanin

President, Chairman of the Board, MMC Norilsk Nickel

Born in: 1961.
Vladimir Potanin holds a degree in International Economics from Moscow State Institute of International Relations.
On graduation from the Institute in 1983, he joined the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade where he served until 1990.
In 1990, he became President of Interros Foreign Trade Association.
From 1992 to 1993, Vladimir served as Vice-President and then President at International Company for Finance and Investments (MFK).
In 1993, he became President of United Export Import Bank (UNEXIM BANK).
Between 1996 and 1997, he served as First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
In May 1997, he became President of UNEXIM Bank/
Since 1998, Vladimir has been President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Interros.
Company’s President since 2015.
Chairman of the Management Board at MMC Norilsk Nickel since 2012.

Rose Schooler

Corporate Vice President, Sales and Marketing Group, General Manager, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation

Rose Schooler is the Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Global Data Center Sales. She leads a worldwide organisation responsible for managing overall revenue and strategy across the various sales, technical support, and channels capabilities, in order to deliver Data Center solutions to Intel customers and partners.
Schooler previously served as Intel’s Vice President of Internet of Things (IOT) Sales, and as such was responsible for scaling Intel’s sales footprint in the IOT Market. Prior to her role in sales, Schooler was Vice President of the IoT Strategy and Integrated Products Division in the Internet of Things Group (IOTG) with responsibility for managing the IoT strategy across all of Intel's assets, driving policy, industry and partner development. In addition to her Sales and IOT roles, Schooler has also served as Vice President of the Data Center Group and General Manager of Communications and Storage Infrastructure Group at Intel Corporation, driving product development for the networking and storage market segments, as well as providing solutions for telecommunications service providers. In this role, Schooler led industry initiatives including Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking.

Schooler started her career at Intel in 1989 and has held key positions across Intel in manufacturing, quality and reliability and marketing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Ceramics Science and Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Schooler was named in “Who’s Who in Business” by the Arizona Republic in 2016. Schooler has been a member of industry boards including ATIS and TIA and currently serves on NCWIT and the Industry and Professional Advisory Council (IPAC) for the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State.

Yuriy Slyusar

President, United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)

Born on 20 July 1974 in Rostov-on-Don.
1996: Lomonosov Moscow State University, lawyer.
2003: Postgraduate Studies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, PhD in Economicsc. Until 2003 – worked at commercial companies.
2003 – appointed Commercial Director of Rostvertol, in Rostov-on-Don.
2005 – worked on the helicopter programme committee for Oboronprom (continuing as Commercial Director of Rostvertol until 2007).
2009 –appointed Aide to the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2010 –appointed Director of the Department of Aviation at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2012 –appointed Deputy Minister ofIndustry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
January 2015 – elected President of the Joint Stock Company UAC. He has held this post since April 2015.

Peter Terwiesch

President, Industrial Automation Business, Member of the Group Executive Committee, ABB Ltd

Education
2001 General Manager Program, Harvard Business School, United States
1991 – 1994 PhD in Electrical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
1986 – 1991 Degree in Electrical Engineering (Dipl. Ing.), Karlsruhe University,
Germany, including diploma thesis at Ecole Nationale Superieure
de Physique, Strasbourg, France
Professional experience
ABB
2017 to date President, Industrial Automation business
Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd, Switzerland
2015 – 2016 President, Process Automation division
Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB Ltd, Switzerland
2011 – 2014 Region manager Central Europe
Country manager Germany
2005 – 2011 Chief Technology Officer – ABB Ltd, Switzerland
2003 – 2005 Chief Technology Officer, ABB Automation Technologies division (global)
and President, ABB Automation GmbH, Germany
2001 – 2002 Head of Technology, ABB Industries division (global)
and Head of Industries division, ABB Switzerland
1999 – 2001 Managing Director, ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Switzerland
1999 – 2000 Corporate Program Manager, Automation Technologies (global)
1997 – 1999 Department Manager, ABB Corporate Research, Germany
1994 – 1997 Research Scientist and Project Manager, ABB Corporate Research,
Switzerland
ETH Zurich
1999 – 2002 Lecturer, Automatic Control Lab
1991 – 1994 Research and Teaching Assistant, Technical Chemistry Lab
2/2
Board memberships
• Non-Executive Director of Metall Zug AG, Switzerland
Other memberships
• Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

Borje Ekholm

President, Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson

Börje Ekholm is President and CEO of the Ericsson Group, since January 16, 2017.
Most recently Ekholm was CEO of Patricia Industries, a division within Investor AB. Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc.
Börje Ekholm holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from INSEAD, France.
He is a board member of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson and Alibaba, Inc. Ekholm is also Member of the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall. Since 2017, Member of the Stering Committee of the World Economic Forum Digital Communication Governors and a member of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Holds Honorary Doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Front row participants
Roland Fischer, Chief Executive Officer, OC Oerlikon Management AG
Evgeny Charkin, Information Technology Director, Russian Railways

Roland Fischer

Chief Executive Officer, OC Oerlikon Management AG

Dr. Roland Fischer was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Oerlikon Group, effective March 1, 2016. Prior to Oerlikon, Dr. Fischer held senior management positions at Siemens AG, the most recent as CEO of the Power and Gas Division from 2013 to 2015. Between 2011 and 2012, Dr. Roland Fischer served as CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division, and from 2008 to 2011, he was CEO of the Business Unit Fossil Power Generation – Products, Siemens, Germany. Before joining Siemens, Dr. Fischer was 18 years at MTU Aero Engines AG in diverse management positions in Germany and Malaysia, lastly serving as Senior Vice President, Defence Programmes in Germany. Dr. Roland Fischer graduated from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, with a degree in Aeronautical Engineering, and holds a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Evgeny Charkin

Information Technology Director, Russian Railways

Moderator
Kirill Tokarev, Editor-in-Chief, Anchor, RBC

Kirill Tokarev

Editor-in-Chief, Anchor, RBC

Born on 28 March 1984 in Kimovsk, Tula Oblast.
Graduated from the Department of the Political Science at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE).
Since 2011 has worked as editor-in-chief and TV presenter for RBC. Among his projects are 'Tokarev.Delo', 'New economics with Kirill Tokarev', 'Companies' news' etc.

Panellists
Maxim Akimov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
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Elena Bunina, General Director, Director of Organizational Development and HR Management, Yandex Russia
Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank
Arkady Dvorkovich, President, World Chess Federation (FIDE); Chairman, Skolkovo Foundation
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Guo Ping, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating Chief Executive Officer, Huawei
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Maxim Akimov

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born March 1, 1970 in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluzhskaya oblast. Graduated history department of Kaluiga State Pedagogical University. Worked two years as a history teacher. Served in the military. 1994 – 1996 – headed Fineart-Audit. 1996 – 1997 – chairman of a regional commission on securities. 1997 – 2001 – deputy director of economy and industry department of Kaluzhsky regional government. 2001 – 2004 – first deputy of a state property committee of Kaluzhskaya oblast. 2004 – minister of economic development of Kaluzhsky region. 2004 – 2007 – first deputy of Kaluga mayor, then mayor of Kaluga. 2007 – May 2012 – deputy governor of Kaluzhskaya oblast. May 22, 2012 appointed deputy chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. May 24, 2013 appointed first deputy chief of staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. May 18, 2018 appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Married, has two sons.

Elena Bunina

General Director, Director of Organizational Development and HR Management, Yandex Russia

Elena Bunina studied at the Department of Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University, completed her post-graduate studies there. In 2010 became Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Ms. Bunina joined Yandex in 2007. She founded the Data Analysis School, where she is currently head of Computer Science department. She played a key role in launching the computer science department in the Higher School of Economics, Yandex.Lyceum and other education projects.
In 2011 became Director for organizational development and personnel management of Yandex, since 2017 combines the duties with the position of CEO Yandex in Russia.

Alexander Vedyakhin

First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Arkady Dvorkovich

President, World Chess Federation (FIDE); Chairman, Skolkovo Foundation

Born on May 26, 1972 in Moscow.
In 1994 graduated from Moscow State University with a Master degree in economics.
1994-1997 – worked as an expert in the Expert Group of Russia’s Ministry of Finance.
1997-2000 - Head of the Economic Expert Group of Russia’s Ministry of Finance.
Since August of 2000 – Adviser of the Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Since 2001 - Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
Since April of 2004 - Head of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate of the Presidential Executive Office.
Since May 13, 2008 - Aide to the President.
From May 13, 2008 to May, 21 2012 served as an aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
On December 31, 2009 according to the decree of the President Dmitry Medvedev entered the working group for creation of a detached territorial complex for research and development and further commercialization of the results.
On May 21, 2012 he was appointed the Deputy Prime-Minister of the Russian Federation.
May 2018 – appointed co-chair of the Skolkovo Foundation council.
In September 2018, he was appointed to a government commission on modernising Russia’s economy and innovative development.
The same month, he was appointed Chair of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Guo Ping

Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating Chief Executive Officer, Huawei

Mr. Guo Ping was born in 1966. He graduated from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a Master's degree. Mr. Guo Ping has been with Huawei since 1988. He occupied the positions of an R&D project manager, supply chain director, Huawei Executive Committee Director, and the Legal Department Director. Then he moved on to become the president of the Business Processes Management and IT Department, the Corporate Development Department president, the chairman and president of the Consumer Devices Division, the deputy chairman of the Board, the General Director, and the Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Active participant of Task Force B20 for Digital Economy and Industry 4.0 under the Argentina's G20 presidency in 2018.

Front row participant
Dmitry Dyrmovsky, General Director, Member of the Board of Directors, Speech Technology Centre

Dmitry Dyrmovsky

General Director, Member of the Board of Directors, Speech Technology Centre

Dmitry Dyrmovskiy graduated from the Specialized Educational Scientific Centre (SESC) at Novosibirsk State University (NSU) in 1996 and from the Zhukovsky Air force engineering Academy (VVIA) in 2001. Dmitry Dyrmovskiy had been working in The Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation as a scientific engineer until 2004.
In 2004 he started working in a Russian company engaged in development of speech technology and multimodal biometrics called Speech Technology Center (STC) as a project leader. In 2007 he became Head of the Moscow branch. Since 2012 Mr.Dyrmovskiy is a member of the STCs’ Board of Directors and in 2014 he was named General Director of the company.
In 2014 he successfully completed Executive course at IMD Business School (Switzerland).
Since 2015 in addition to leading STC Dmitry Dyrmovskiy has become Vice President of the National Association of contact centers and Advisor to the President of the Russian football Premier-League (RFPL).
In 2015 Dmitry Dyrmovskiy joined the management Board of NP "RUSSOFT".
Since 2015 Dmitry Dyrmovskiy is included in the composition of the Expert Council of the Russian software of the Ministry.
Since 2016 Dmitry Dyrmovskiy has taken place in the Board ARPP "National software".
In 2017 Dmitry Dyrmovskiy was awarded "Manager of the year" in the nomination "Innovative scientific and technical development".

Moderator
Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Stanislav Kuznetsov

Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Stanislav K. Kuznetsov was born on July 25, 1962, in Leipzig (GDR).
In 1984, he graduated from the Military Institute with a Military and Political Specialization including the study of foreign languages (German and Czech), and in 2002 he graduated from the Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a specialty in Law. PhD in Law.
In 1979-2002, he served in the Russian Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies.
In 2002-2004, he was the head of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In 2004-2007, he was appointed head of the Administrative Department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
From April 2007 to December 2008, he was Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
In January 2008, he became the Senior Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of Sberbank.
Since October 2010, he has been a Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank. Supervises the work of the Administrative Unit, the Administrative Support Centre, and the Moscow Regional Directorate of the Cashflow Management Centre. Coordinates the work of the Bank's security subdivisions.
Awarded the Order of Merit for Service to the Fatherland, 4th Class, the Order of Honour, the Order of Friendship, and the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Honoured with the acknowledgement of the President of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Certificate of Honour of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation.

Panellists
Gregory Abovsky, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Yandex
Esko Aho, Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries
Eugene Kaspersky, Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab
Brett King, Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Movencorp Inc.
Alexey Kornya, President, MTS
Mika Lauhde, Vice-President of Cyber Security & Privacy, Global Public Affairs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

Gregory Abovsky

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Yandex

Greg Abovsky joined Yandex as Vice President of Investor Relations in January 2013, assuming the extra duty of Vice President for Corporate Development in October 2013. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2014, and Chief Operating Officer of Yandex in 2017.
He started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and has over 17 years of experience in a variety of finance and investment management roles in the media and technology sectors. He holds a B.A. degree in Business Economics and Russian Literature from Brown University and an MBA. with High Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Esko Aho

Prime Minister of Finland (1991–1995); Senior Adviser, East Office of Finnish Industries

Born 1954, M.Sc. (Soc.Sc.).
In April 2013 Mr. Aho was appointed as an Executive Chairman of East Office of Finnish Industries representing the leading Finnish corporations in Russia. He was also appointed to head the Business Team for Russia – the cooperation venture of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, East Office and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK’s Russia functions.
Mr. Aho enjoyed a long and distinguished career in government service. He served as a member of Finnish parliament for 20 years, from 1983. He was elected to the Prime Minister’s Office in 1991 at the age of 36, making him the youngest prime minister in Finland’s history. During his premiership, Mr. Aho chaired the Science and Technology Policy Council of Finland. Under his leadership, he also brought Finland into the European Union.
After leaving office in 1995, Mr. Aho spent one year as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 2000. He then served as the president of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, from 2004-2008.
Currently Mr. Aho serves as elected member of the Executive Board at the International Chamber of Commerce. He is also an invited member of Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy. Since founded in 2010, Mr. Aho has been a board member at Skolkovo Foundation, a non-profit organization charged with creating a new science and technology development centre in the Moscow suburb of Skolkovo. In May 2016 Mr. Aho was elected to the Supervisory Board of Sberbank.
In March 2015, he was named as Executive in Residence at Aalto University, where he works at the Department of Management Studies at the School of Business. Mr. Aho holds honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Vaasa, Finland, and the University of Alberta, Canada.

Eugene Kaspersky

Chief Executive Officer, Kaspersky Lab

Eugene Kaspersky is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and successful entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab, the world’s largest privately-held vendor of endpoint protection and cybersecurity solutions.
Eugene began his career in cybersecurity accidentally when his computer became infected with the ‘Cascade’ virus in 1989. Eugene’s specialized education in cryptography helped him analyze the encrypted virus, understand its behavior, and then develop a removal tool for it. After successfully removing the virus, Eugene’s curiosity and passion for computer technology drove him to start analyzing more malicious programs and developing disinfection modules for them. This exotic collection of antivirus modules would eventually become the foundation for Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus database. Today the database is one of the most comprehensive and complete collections in cybersecurity, used in detecting and preventing systems from being infected by more than 500 million malicious programs.
Further pursuing his passion for defensive technologies, in 1990 Eugene started gathering a team of like-minded enthusiast researchers to create the AVP Toolkit Pro antivirus program, which four years later was recognized by the University of Hamburg as the most effective antivirus software in the world.
Wishing to combine their successful track record of antivirus programming with their entrepreneurial vision, Eugene and his colleagues decided to establish their own independent company. In 1997 Kaspersky Lab was founded, with Eugene heading the company’s antivirus research. In 2007 he was named Kaspersky Lab’s CEO.
Today Kaspersky Lab is one of the fastest growing IT security vendors worldwide, operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company employs more than 3,800 professionals and IT security specialists in 35 dedicated regional offices across 31 countries, and its cybersecurity technologies protect over 400 million users worldwide.
Kaspersky Lab’s globally renowned team of experts has investigated some of the most complex and sophisticated cyberattacks ever known, including Stuxnet, Flame, and Red October. The company also cooperates extensively with INTERPOL, Europol, and national police bodies to actively assist them in their fight against cybercrime.
Eugene has an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the UK’s Plymouth University. He regularly gives both lectures on cybersecurity at universities around the globe, and keynotes at leading conferences and industry events.
Eugene is both a passionate traveler and dedicated devotee of wild nature and adventure-tourism. He is also a talented photographer, which assists in his prolific chronicling of his exploits in his blog – from polar expeditions and glacier crossings to volcano scaling and jungle trekking.

Brett King

Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Movencorp Inc.

Brett King is a bestselling author, a renowned commentator and globally respected speaker on the future of business. He has spoken in over 50 countries, to a million people, on how technology is disrupting business, changing behavior and influencing society. He has advised the White House, FED and the National Economic Council on the Future of Banking in the USA and meets regularly with regulators from London, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Russia, Canada, the EU and the World Bank. He appears regularly as a commentator on CNBC, Fox, ABC, Bloomberg and others.
King hosts the world's first and #1 ranked global Fintech radio show called Breaking Banks (140 countries, 3.5 million listeners). He is also the founder of Moven, a globally recognized mobile start-up, which has raised over US$30 million to date, with the world's first mobile-first, downloadable bank account.
Named “King of the Disruptors” by Banking Exchange magazine, King was also voted American Banker's Innovator of the Year in 2012, voted the world's #1 Financial Services Influencer by The Financial Brand and was nominated by Bank Innovation as one of the top 10 "coolest brands in banking". He was shortlisted for the 2015 Advance Global Australian of the Year Award for being one of the most influential Australians living offshore. His fifth bestselling book is Augmented: Life in the Smart Lane has topped Amazon bestseller lists in Robotics, Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Banking in UK, USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, and Japan

Alexey Kornya

President, MTS

In March 2018, Alexey Kornya was appointed CEO and President of MTS. PJSC. Since 2008 Mr. Kornya was appointed Acting Vice President and in 2010 began his tenure as Vice President, Finance and Investment, at MTS PJSC. Since June 2016, he has been Vice President for Finance, Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions.
Mr. Kornya joined the Company in 2004 as the Chief Financial Officer of MTS Ural macroregion. Between 2004 and 2007, he was Director of MTS Group for Business Planning. In March 2007, he was appointed Chief Financial Controller of MTS Group.
Prior to joining MTS, Alexey worked for North-West Telecom and PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit.
Alexey is a member of the Budget Committee of the MTS PJSC Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board of MTS Ukraine PrJSC, member of the Board of Directors of Mobile TeleSystems JLLC (MTS Belarus) and RTC JSC. He is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Strategy and Risk Management Committee of the Board of Directors of MTS Bank PJSC.
Alexey was born in 1975. In 1998, he graduated with honors from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

Front row participants
Jack Lau, Adjunct Professor of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology​; Visiting Professor, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Nikolai Legkodimov, Partner, Head of Emerging Technologies, KPMG in Russia and the CIS
Luca Tagliaretti, Senior Security Expert, European Central Bank (ECB)

Nikolai Legkodimov

Partner, Head of Emerging Technologies, KPMG in Russia and the CIS

Nikolay joined KPMG from the oil & gas sector, where he held various senior positions in IT, project management, business process optimisation and engineering for major Russian oil & gas companies. Prior to that, he worked for the New York and Moscow offices of KPMG, advising finance and oil & gas clients on IT security and corporate fraud prevention issues. Now, Nikolay is the head of KPMG’s Emerging Technologies Group that offers finance and commodity clients various solutions related to the corporate distributed register (blockchain), AI and ML, IIoT, advanced Big Data analysis methods, technology brokerage, startup and technology scouting, as well as the development of digitization strategies.

Luca Tagliaretti

Senior Security Expert, European Central Bank (ECB)

Luca Tagliaretti joined the European Central Bank (ECB) in 1999. During the course of his career in central banking he was involved in a range of activities and with different roles. From 2011 to 2019 he lead the International Counterfeit Deterrence Centre at the ECB that provides technical support and assistance to more than 50 National Central Banks around the world. From the beginning of 2019 he is responsible for the establishment of a joint cyber-monitoring initiative which will bring together and reinforce synergies between Central Banks and Law Enforcement Community.
Luca holds an engineering degree from the Polytechnic of Milan, two MBAs from MIP and Oxford Brookes University, a Post Graduate Master from Oxford University -Saïd Business School- and completed the PON at Harvard University.
For his activities he was awarded the knighthood of the Order of The Star of Italy, by the Italian President of Republic.

Moderator
Natalya Timakova, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

Natalya Timakova

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

Panellists
Marco Bucci, Mayor of Genoa
Eduard Galazhinsky, Rector, National Research Tomsk State University
Mikhail Kotyukov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Yaroslav Kuzminov, Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Liu Limin, Chairman, China Association for International Exchange in Education
Alena Parfenova, Senior Lecturer, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology
Maksim Reshetnikov, Governor of Perm Territory
Lawrence Stein, Vice President for Intellectual Property and International Business Community Relations, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech)
Svetlana Yachevskaya, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

Marco Bucci

Mayor of Genoa

Born in Genoa 31, October 1959, after graduation (Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry) he has held multiple global assignments, having lived in Europe and the United States.
• From the mid - 80s to the end of the 90s he has been working at 3M, chemicals.
• From 1999 to 2016 he has been working at Kodak and Carestream Health, leading operations to make the brand popular and plan further development phases.
• From October 2015 to April 2017 he was Chairman of the Board at Liguria Digitale, Genoa.
He is married, and has one son, Matteo and one daughter, Francesca. Among his hobbies and interests: hiking in the backcountry. He loves the sea and mountain climbing as well.
• He was elected Mayor of Genoa on June 2017.

Eduard Galazhinsky

Rector, National Research Tomsk State University

Eduard V. GALAZHINSKIY (born 1968). Fellow of the Russian Academy of Education. Winner of the state prize in the field of education awarded by the government of the Russian Federation. Executive of various projects supported by the leading research funds of Russia and federal grant programmes. These projects have won awards at international expos and summits dedicated to education. His main scientific achievements deal with personality and leadership psychology. They represent the results of long-term research in determination and direction of a person's self-realization in the context of transformations in organization models of modern-day education. Professor Galazhinskiy has more than 100 published papers. 25 years ago Professor Galazhinskiy started his career as a research associate at Institute of Education of Russian Academy of Education, then he became the head of the Department of Personality Psychology, and today he is the rector of National Research Tomsk State University. Under his guidance since 2013, the University has been a successful participant of the Programme of Improvement in International Competitive Performance by the Leading Russian Universities (5-100). In 2016 the QS International Ratings Agency rated TSU among the Top-400 world universities at number 377

Mikhail Kotyukov

Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Yaroslav Kuzminov

Rector, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Diploma in Economics, Moscow State University named after M. Lomonosov.
In 1992 Yaroslav Kuzminov and Evgeny Yasin came forward with the project of a new type of university specializing in Economics.
In 2011 Y. Kuzminov headed the Expert Group “Labor market, Professional Education, and Migration Policy” in the framework of the development of the Russian Federation “Strategy 2020”.
Yaroslav Kuzminov is Deputy Head of the National Coordination Council for Supporting Young Gifted People; member of presidium of Presidential Economic Council; member the Presidential Commission on for Civil Service and Management Personnel Pool established; member of the Government Commission for the Coordination of the Open Government; member of the Government Commission on Economic Development and Integration et etc.
Professor Kuzminov is an author of more than 100 academic works published in Russia and abroad, and a co-author of over 10 monographs and textbooks. He has been also regularly writing for leading Russian and foreign periodicals.
By decrees of the President of the Russian Federation Y. Kuzminov has been awarded the Order For Merit to the Fatherland (2012) of the IV class and the Order of Honour (2002).

Liu Limin

Chairman, China Association for International Exchange in Education

Liu Limin was born in Hebei Province in October 1955. He is a full professor with a Ph.D. in Russian Language from Pushkin Russian Language Institute.
1972-1975 Undergraduate studies (B.A. in Russian Language), Dalian University of Foreign Languages (DLUFL), (formerly known as Liaoning Foreign Language College)
1975-1980 Lecturer, Department of Russian Language, DLUFL
1980-1983 Postgraduate studies (M.A. in Modern Russian Language), Capital Normal University (CNU), (formerly known as Beijing Normal College)
1983-1987 Lecturer, Department of Russian Language, CNU
1986-1989 Doctoral studies (Ph.D. in Russian Language), Pushkin Russian Language Institute
1987-1989 Vice Chairman of Russian Language Department, CNU
1989-1993 Deputy Dean of Foreign Language Institute, and Chairman of Russian Language Department, CNU
1993-1998 Secretary-General of CNU, Dean of Foreign Language Institute, CNU
1998-2004 Vice President of CNU
2004-2006 Secretary of the CPC Committee of CNU
2006-2007 Deputy Secretary of Education Committee of Beijing CPC, Director-General of Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Director of the Education Inspectorate Office of Beijing Municipal Government
2007-2010 Deputy Secretary of Education Committee of Beijing CPC, Director-General of Beijing Municipal Education Commission
2010-2016 Vice Minister of Education and Member of CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Education
2014.02- Vice President of Western Returned Scholars Association, Oversea-educated Scholars Association of China
2016.10- President of China Education Association for International Exchange
2018.03- Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)

Alena Parfenova

Senior Lecturer, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology

Maksim Reshetnikov

Governor of Perm Territory

- Born 11 July, 1979, Perm.
- 2000: Graduated from Perm State University with a degree in economics and mathematics. PhD (Economics).
- 2002: Earned a degree in linguistics and translation.
- PhD Economic.
- 2002 — 2005: Head of Budget Planning Division, Head of Division for Regional Finance and Investments, Deputy Head of the Main Economic Directorate of the Administration of the Perm Region.
- 2005 — 2007: First Deputy Chairman, Planning Department, Perm Region; First Deputy Head of the Executive Office under the Governor of the Perm Territory.
- 2007 — 2009: Deputy Director, Department for Inter-Budget Relations; Director, Department for Monitoring and Evaluation of Efficiency of Government Authorities of Constituent Entities of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Regional Development of Russia.
- 2009: Head of the Executive Office of the Governor of the Perm Territory.
- 2009 — 2010: Director, Department for State Governance, Regional Development and Local Government of the Government Staff of the Russian Federation.
- 2010: First Deputy Chief of Staff to the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government.
- 23 April, 2012: Appointed Moscow Government Minister and Head of the Moscow Department for Economic Policy and Development by an executive order of the Mayor of Moscow.
- On 18 September 2017 was elected governor of Perm Territory.
- Actual State Councillor of the City of Moscow 1st Class. Awarded Honorary Certificate of the Government of the Russian Federation and Letter of Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.

Svetlana Yachevskaya

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board – Member of the Management Board, State Development Corporation "VEB.RF"

She was born on April 10, 1977 in Moscow.
In 2001 she graduated with honors from the International Independent Ecological-Political University with a degree in Jurisprudence.
In 2004 she graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in Financial Management.
Candidate of Juridical Sciences. From 2009 to 2012 she was the Associate Professor of the Department of Legal Support of Management Activities of the Moscow Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
From 1999 to 2003 she was a member of the Bar Association "Moscow Law Center", she carried out advocacy.
From 2003 to 2004 she was the Head of Legal Support Section of the Defence and Law Enforcement Ministries and Agencies Military Property Department in the Ministry of Property Relations of the Russian Federation.
From 2004 to 2008 in the Federal Agency for Federal Property Management she held the following positions: Deputy Head of Defence and Law Enforcement and Judicial Agencies Property Division, Head of Judicial Agencies Section.
From 2008 to 2017 she headed the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.
Since May 2017 she has been in a post as Vnesheconombank’s Deputy Chairman – Member of the Management Board.
Honors:
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian Government in recognition of achievements in economic and finance activities and long-standing dedicated work (2010);
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian President for activities related to fulfilling the tasks and goals set by the Russian President and aimed at enhancing the efficiency of public and municipal services (2011);
Certificate of Acknowledgement by the Russian Minister of Finance in recognition of achievements in finance and economy and long-standing impeccable work (2011);
Second-class medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland for work achievements and long-standing dedicated work (2011).
Civil service class rank:
Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 2nd Class.

Front row participants
Sergey Bachevsky, Rector, Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Andrey Volkov, Academic Policy Advisor, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Magdalena Gaete, Official Representative of the University of Navarra in the Russian Federation
Vladimir Knyaginin, Vice Governor of St. Petersburg
Mikhail Kozhevnikov, President, Prosveshcheniye Group of Companies
Nikolay Kudryavtsev, Rector, FSAEI HPE «Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University»
Mikhail Kuznetsov, Director of the Center for System Transformations of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Winner, Leaders of Russia National Management Competition
Vadim Lobov, President, Synergy Corporation
Vladimir Miklushevskiy, President, Moscow Polytechnic University
Alexander Povalko, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, RVC
Natalya Trunova, Vice President, Head of Spatial Development, Center for Strategic Research Foundation
Vyacheslav Tsyganov, Chief Information Officer, Tinkoff Bank

Sergey Bachevsky

Rector, Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

Andrey Volkov

Academic Policy Advisor, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Deputy Chairman of the Council on Global Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities among Global Research and Education Centers. Andrei Volkov (Doctor of Engineering) has been the Dean of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO since its inception in 2006 till 2013, he is one of Russia's leading experts in education policy and advisor to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Andrei headed the group of G8 experts on questions relating to Russian initiatives in the field of education.
From 2002 – 2005, Andrei was vice principal of the Russian Government affiliated Academy of National Economics.
From 1991 to 2002, he was one of the creators and heads of the Tolyattinskiy Academy of Management, an academic institution famous for its innovative approaches to education.
He graduated from Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics and worked as a research fellow for the Scientific Research Institute of Atomic Reactors from 1984-1991.
He is President of the Russian Federation of Mountain Climbing (from 2003) and a world-class sportsman, who conquered Everest in 1992. Andrei Volkov was awarded the Order of Friendship of the People in 1993, and in 2006 he won the Medal for Services to the Motherland of the First Class.

Magdalena Gaete

Official Representative of the University of Navarra in the Russian Federation

Magdalena Gaete, expert in reputation global trends in Higher Education, representative of the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) in Russia since 2014.
During the last 5 years, she has become in Russia a recognized expert in areas such as university reputation and strategy, employability and universities, alumni affairs, volunteering, internationalization, marketing & PR, and fundraising. She handles assignments on developing the organizational culture at universities and improving their strategic management system effectiveness.
She speaks regularly all over Russia at conferences, forums and other events dedicated to the development of Higher Education.
In addition to that, she has been since 2010 Project Director of the Volga Foundation, which contributes to the revival of culture and volunteering.

Vladimir Knyaginin

Vice Governor of St. Petersburg

Born on January 20, 1961 in Abakan, Krasnoyarsk Region.
Professional interests:
Higher education, vocational education, human resources management.
Science and technology management, energy foresight, industrial and technological foresight.
Regional planning, strategy for regions and cities development, tools and mechanisms for regional development.
Education:
Law School of Leningrad State University (LSU), Doctor of Juridical Science
Professional background:
Upon graduation he became an active researcher and educator.
1989–2002 – Krasnoyarsk State University and Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University
In 2002 the Center for Strategic Research of the Krasnoyarsk Region has invited him to head the laboratory of political and legal research. As an expert and consultant cooperated with a number of regional Russian and foreign strategic centers, including the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. He was engaged in projects of regional development and national industrial policy.
2004–2006 – Chief Scientific Officer of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation.
2006–2014 – Director of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation.
2014–present – Chairman of the Board of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation.
2014–2016 – President of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation.
2016 – 2019 – Vice-President of the “Center for Strategic Research” Foundation.
2019 - present - Vice Governor of St. Petersburg

Mikhail Kozhevnikov

President, Prosveshcheniye Group of Companies

Number of years in company – 16 yrs.
2001 – 2015 – Commercial Director. OJSC "Publishing house "Prosvescheniye"
2015 – 2017 – Managing Director. JSC "Publishing house "Prosvescheniye"
January 2017 – until now – Senior Vice President. JSC “Holding company "Prosvescheniye"
Mikhail Kozhevnikov has held key management positions in the largest publishing and book-selling business structures for more than 20 years. He is an expert in the fields of commerce, marketing, regional business development. He has considerable experience in the spheres of organizational reforms, reengineering of business processes and accompanying management processes of large companies.
In September 2016, he entered the top-1000 of Russian managers and the top-10 of top executives of the media business.
In 2016, under the supervision of Mikhail Kozhevnikov and with the participation of PwC, the Development Strategy of "Prosvescheniye" until 2025 was developed. It is to determine the Company's development for the next 10 years.
Today, under the guidance of Mikhail Kozhevnikov, in "Prosvescheniye" significant changes are underway to improve management processes, upgrade the team, develop the product portfolio and enter adjacent segments of the market.
These transformations have made it possible to improve the efficiency of the company. In particular, the volume of pressrun of "Prosvescheniye" in 2017 exceeded 100 million copies. This is the most impressive result for the entire modern history of the company.
Mikhail Kozhevnikov took the Executive MBA program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Nikolay Kudryavtsev

Rector, FSAEI HPE «Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University»

Education:
From 1967 to 1973 - MIPT student, Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics.
Graduated from MIPT with specialty in the "Physics and Mechanics of Chemical Processes."
In 1977, defended thesis for the Degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
In 1987, defended thesis for the Degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences on the problems of thermal protection of the reusable launch Space Shuttle "Buran"
Professional Experience:
From 1977 - Assistant in the Department of Molecular Physics.
From 1978 to 1987 - Vice Dean of the Faculty of Molecular and Chemical Physics.
In 1987 - Dean of FMCP.
In 1988 - Head of the Department of Molecular Physics.
In 1990 - Awarded the title of professor. He is a member of the International Informatization Academy.
In 1991 became a founding member of the JSC "Laboratory Impulse Technology" (LIT) at MIPT, created to promote ultraviolet water disinfection systems in the region. Led the development of these systems.
In 1994 was elected to the position of General Director of "Phonon" of the Ministry of Defense Industry, one of the main developers of piezo-technical products in the country. Participated in the organization of the restructuring of the company.
In 1997 was elected Rector of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University).
In 2000 was awarded the title of Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology.
Has more than 110 scientific papers, 9 books (co-authored), and 10 patents.
Invited to lecture and research in the USA (1991, 1992, 1993), France (1992, 1993, 1994), and Italy (1994). Has often been invited to original and review lectures at international conferences on shock tube aerothermal chemistry, chemical and gas dynamic lasers.

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Director of the Center for System Transformations of the Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University; Winner, Leaders of Russia National Management Competition

Vadim Lobov

President, Synergy Corporation

The founder of the educational Corporation "Synergy", which includes more than 15 educational institutions, among which are Moscow University for Industry and Finance "Synergy" (Synergy University), Synergy Business School, Moscow Open Institute, Moscow Academy of Entrepreneurship and others.
Education
Candidate of Economics Sciences, Associate Professor. An honored graduate of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. In 2004 he defended his thesis on "Entrepreneurial Activity of Higher Education Institution in the Russian Education System". After graduating from the University he had an internship in the USA.
Professional activity
He started his entrepreneurial activity in the field of education in 2001. He is the founder of the educational Corporation "Synergy", which includes more than 15 educational institutions, among which are Moscow University for Industry and Finance "Synergy" (Synergy University), Synergy Business School, Moscow Open Institute, Moscow Academy of Entrepreneurship, School of Managers "Arsenal" and others.
Synergy University implements more than 100 educational programmes at all levels of training: college, bachelor, master, postgraduate, business education (MBA, professional retraining, seminars, and courses). The University trains students in such fields as Management, Economics, Entrepreneurship, IT, Law and other popular specialties.
Under V.G. Lobov leadership, a number of divisions were opened at Synergy University, contributing to the scientific development of the University, quality education, and adaptation of young people: Center of Patriotic Education, Center for Sociological Studies, Economic Research Center, Volunteer Training Center, and British Education Center.
In 2007, the satellite TV-channel "Synergy TV" specializing in educational content was launched. Guests of the channel are leading business speakers, experts in the field of management, entrepreneurship, and other areas.
On the initiative of V.G. Lobov, the Venture Fund “Synergy Innovations” was established on the basis of Synergy University. The Fund assists in the implementation of state policy in the field of science, technology, and innovation, invests in fast-growing companies and projects developing in promising markets.
For success in the formation of a new model of the educational process on the basis of Synergy University, V.G. Lobov was awarded the prize of the Russian Biographical Institute "Man of the Year 2010" in the nomination "Higher School".
Activities abroad
In 2012, Synergy University opened the campus in Dubai (UAE), where students are currently undergoing undergraduate, graduate and MBA programmes. Synergy University became the first Russian University to enter the UAE education market.
In 2015, the representative office of Synergy University in Tehran (Iran) began its work, in 2016 — a representative office in Damascus (Syria) was opened. Among academic partners of Synergy are the best business schools in China, the UK, Spain, Germany, and the USA.
Humanitarian activities
V. G. Lobov is the author of the concept of "Russian Humanitarian Expeditions" — a series of events aimed at promoting the Russian Language and culture in foreign countries, supporting compatriots living abroad. In 2013-2016, humanitarian expeditions to Spain, Germany, Poland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Montenegro and a number of other countries were conducted under the auspices of Synergy University.
At the initiative of Synergy University in 2015, an Interuniversity Russian Language Department was created and provided with methodological materials at the University of Damascus (Syria). The Department implements training and professional development programmes for teachers of Russian as a Foreign Language. In 2016, the University organized trips to Russian camps for Syrian children — winners of School Olympiads on Knowledge of Russia.
The Volunteer Training Center for the organization of world-class sports events works on the basis of Synergy University in Moscow. In 2014, more than 1,000 volunteers trained at the Center took part in the organization of the XXII Olympic winter games and XI Paralympic winter games in Sochi. In 2018, the University trained more than 1,500 volunteers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. The level of volunteers training in the Center is confirmed by the award "For Significant Contribution to the Implementation of the Volunteer Program "Sochi-2014" and the Development of Volunteer Movement in Russia".

Vladimir Miklushevskiy

President, Moscow Polytechnic University

Born on September 15, 1967 in the city of Sverdlovsk.

In the year 1990 - graduated with excellence from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISIS) on the specialty “Metallurgy Engineer”.

Within the period of 1990-1993 undergone Postgraduate studies at MISIS. Thereafter, worked as a teacher at the “Department of Rare Materials and Powder Metallurgy” of the above university.

In the year 1998 was appointed Head of the “Planning and Economics Directorate” of MISIS, in the year 2004 was appointed Vice-Rector for Economics and Finance, and in April 2007 became the First Vice-Rector of MISIS.

Starting from September 2007 took the position of the Director of the “Department of Forecasting and Budgeting Process Organization” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. On September 1, 2008 was appointed Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

On October 8, 2010 Vladimir V. Miklushevskii was appointed President of Far Eastern Federal University.

On February 28, 2012 was appointed Acting Governor of the Primorsky Krai, and since March 16, 2012 till October 4, 2017 Vladimir V. Miklushevskii held the position of the Governor of the Primorsky Krai.

On December 28, 2017 was appointed Acting Rector of Moscow Polytechnic University and was appointed President thereof on April 25, 2018.

Doctor of Engineering Sciences, the author of more than 60 scientific works.

By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 1, 2017, Vladimir V. Miklushevskii was awarded the Order of Friendship.

Alexander Povalko

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board, RVC

Natalya Trunova

Vice President, Head of Spatial Development, Center for Strategic Research Foundation

Vyacheslav Tsyganov

Chief Information Officer, Tinkoff Bank

Moderator
Elliott Gotkine, Journalist, TV Presenter

Elliott Gotkine

Journalist, TV Presenter

Panellists
Remy Briand, Head of ESG, MSCI
Yuriy Denisov, Chairman of the Management Board, Moscow Exchange
Oliver Hughes, Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank
Sergey Shvetsov, First Deputy Governor, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Andrey Shemetov, Vice President, Head of Global Markets Department, Sberbank CIB
Dror Efrat, Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Investing.com

Yuriy Denisov

Chairman of the Management Board, Moscow Exchange

Oliver Hughes

Chairman of the Management Board, Tinkoff Bank

Professional Experience

At Tinkoff, Oliver Hughes is heading the team that is building Russia's leading financial ecosystem.
He joined Tinkoff as CEO in 2007 right at the start of the project and has been at the helm every step of the way, helping Tinkoff grow into the world's largest independent digital bank with 7m customers. Before joining Tinkoff, Oliver worked for Visa International for a decade, including as Head of Visa in Russia from 2005 until 2007. Prior to Visa, he held various positions including at Reebok, Shell UK and the British Library.

Education

Oliver holds a Master of Arts degree in International Politics from Leeds University and a Master of Science degree in Information Management and Technology from City University in London. He also has a Bachelor of Arts (First Class) degree in Russian and French from the University of Sussex.

Sergey Shvetsov

First Deputy Governor, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)

Andrey Shemetov

Vice President, Head of Global Markets Department, Sberbank CIB

Dror Efrat

Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Investing.com

Moderator
Evelina Zakamskaya, Anchor, Russia 24; Editor-in-Chief, Doctor Channel

Evelina Zakamskaya

Anchor, Russia 24; Editor-in-Chief, Doctor Channel

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.

Panellists
Nico Van Hoecke, President, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa (EEMEA), MSD
Ian Colebourne, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte CIS
Alexey Repik, President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm
Oleg Salagay, Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation
Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland, Founder, So Comment
Emin Fadillioglu, Senior Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline
Alexander Shokhin, President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Nico Van Hoecke

President, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa (EEMEA), MSD

Nico Van Hoecke is MSD President for Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) overseeing the human health business in 70+ countries and close to 1700 staff.
In his position as President, Nico ensures that countries in EEMEA are well equipped and able to offer patients, customers and governments with MSD’s wide range of lifesaving medicines and vaccines. The portfolio of medicines includes an extensive range of off-patent medicines and many of MSD’s newer, innovative medicines and vaccines.
Prior to taking up his post as EEMEA President, Nico led the Finance Organization for MSD’s Emerging Markets, overseeing the financial departments of all countries in Latin America, EEMEA and Asia Pacific.
Nico started his tenure within EEMEA in 2009 as Regional Finance lead for the region. This was followed by two years as Business & Commercial Operations lead for the same region. These two positions together with his experience as Emerging Markets Finance lead have served to help him understand the intricacies of working in a challenging and very rewarding region.
Nico is a Belgian National with a Masters in Corporate Income Taxes and Commercial Sciences, Specialty in Accountancy; and a Bachelor’s Degree in Commercial Sciences all from EHSAL in Brussels.
Prior to joining MSD in 1998, Nico was an External Auditor with Deloitte Touche.

Ian Colebourne

Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte CIS

Ian is the CEO of Deloitte CIS. During his 20-year career, he has built an impressive record of success through a variety of roles including establishing the leading Forensic practice in the CIS, heading the Risk Consulting business and Chairing the EMEA Forensic Group at another Big Four firm. He joined Deloitte in 2012 to lead the Financial Advisory Services practice.Ian has cross-disciplinary experience, having led a number of investigations, corporate intelligence and fraud risk management assignments. He also has experience of financial sector regulatory reviews, and has conducted numerous FCPA investigations, compliance reviews and due diligence assessments for International investors across the CIS. Ian holds a BSc degree in Biological Science from Birmingham University (UK) where he also completed the Legal Practice Course, passing it with Commendation, and qualified as a Solicitor.

Alexey Repik

President, Delovaya Rossiya (Business Russia); Chairman of the Board, Group R-Pharm

Born in Moscow, Russia on 27 August 1979.Graduated from the State University “Higher School of Economics”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.Since 1995 in Healthcare and Pharmaceutics.R-Pharm Founder. President of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), actively participating in the improvement of investment climate in the Russian Federation and the establishment of the regional investment standard.Member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.Member of the Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy.Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of Commission on Investment Climate.Representative (public ombudsman) of the Commissioner of the Presidential Council on the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs on issues related to the protection of the rights of foreign investors.Board-member and Co-chairman of Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on pharmaceutical and medical industry.Co-Chairman of the National Rating CommitteeMember of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and technologies).Member of the Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives".

Oleg Salagay

Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation

Oleg Salagay, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Director of the Department of Public Health and Communications of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Press Secretary of the Minister of Healthcare of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova.
Born on 3 October 1983 in Irkutsk (Irkutsk Oblast).
In 2005, graduated with honours from Irkutsk State Medical University.
In 2006, graduated with honours from the Academy of Labour and Social Relations, Department of Law.
In 2010, graduated with honours from the Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry.
In 2011, received a Master’s Degree in European Law from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Oleg Salagay is a member of many working groups under the auspices of the World Health Organization, BRICS, and bilateral cooperation. He is Chairman of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland

Founder, So Comment

Emin Fadillioglu

Senior Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline

Emin Fedillajoglu was appointed Senior Vice , GSK Pharmaceuticals Emerging Markets Central Area in October 2017. Emin joined GSK in 2012 as Vice President and General Manager of GSK Pharmaceuticals Turkey.
Emin graduated as a medical doctor from Istanbul University’s Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty and worked as a Medical Doctor at Hospital, Istanbul. He subsequently took an MBA degree from Marmara University, Istanbul.
In trade associations, Emin has served as the Chairman of the Board of the AIFD (Association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies) in 2014 and 2015 and acted as board member and Vice President of YASED (International Investors Association of Turkey) for the 2015 – 2018 period.

Alexander Shokhin

President, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP)

Alexander N. Shokhin was born 25 December, 1951. Graduated from the Moscow State University in 1974. Doctor of Economics, Professor. Twice, in 1991-1994 and in 1998, Mr. Shokhin held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. In 1991-1994 he also held positions of Minister of Labor, Minister of Economics, Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development. From 1994 to 2002 – Deputy of the State Duma, with the posts of First Vice Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma party bloc 'Our Home is Russia', Head of the Duma Committee on Credit Institutions and Capital Markets. Since 1995 - President of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. From 2002 to 2006 – Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Investment Group "Renaissance Capital". From 2005 to 2009 – member of the RF Public Chamber. Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Mr. Shokhin is a member of several deliberative bodies under the Russian President and Government. He is also an independent director on the Boards of several companies, including ALROSA, Russian Railways, TMK and others.

Front row participants
Naira Adamyan, Head of Eurasia and Middle East of the Global Business Division of China and Emerging Markets, Sanofi
Oksana Drapkina, Director, National Medical Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Elena Zhidkova, Head, Central Healthcare Directorate, Russian Railways
Igor Kagramanyan, First Deputy Chair, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Maxim Topilin, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
Niels Hessmann, General Director, Bayer; General Representative, Russia and CIS, Bayer AG

Naira Adamyan

Head of Eurasia and Middle East of the Global Business Division of China and Emerging Markets, Sanofi

Naira Adamyan is a doctor, PhD in immunology, MBA degree in Thunderbird Business School in the United States.
Naira has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry, has a deep understanding of the company's business in the region of Eurasia and the Middle East. She began her career path at Janssen Russia and the CIS (pharmaceutical division of Johnson and Johnson), where she worked as a medical representative in 1997. In 2006, she was appointed Managing Director of Janssen in Russia, and since 2010 she became Managing Director of Janssen Eurasia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Janssen Russia. In 2013, Naira became a member of the Board of Directors of Janssen in the countries of the Eurasian region. Joining Sanofi in 2016, Naira became the Chairman of the Management Committee in Russia and the General Manager of the Eurasia Prescription Business. Since September 2018, Naira has held the position of Head of the Eurasia, Middle East and Africa region in the Corporate Affairs Department, and since March 2019 she has been the Head of the Eurasia and Middle East region of the global business division of China & Emerging Markets.

Oksana Drapkina

Director, National Medical Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

Doctor of medical Sciences, Professor, corresponding member of RAS
Oksana M. graduated from the MMA named after I. M. Sechenov in 1992. From 1992 to 1997 she worked in the intensive care unit of the clinic of internal diseases of MMA named after I. M. Sechenov. From 1997 to 2015 she worked at the Department of internal medicine propaedeutics First Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov, where she was promoted from Department assistant to Professor. In 2013, she was Awarded the Russian government prize in the field of education. In 2017 she was appointed to the position of Director of "NMRC PM" of the Ministry of health of Russia.
Professor Drapkina combines ongoing clinical work with research activities.
Awards: diploma of the Ministry of health of Russia, Laureate of the Russian Government prize in education, badge " excellence in health care».
There were defended 16 PhD theses and 1 dissertation for the degree of doctor of medical Sciences under the scientific guidance of O. M. Drapkina, more than 600 scientific article were published in domestic and foreign journals, 7 monographs, 10 textbooks

Elena Zhidkova

Head, Central Healthcare Directorate, Russian Railways

In 2009 Elena Zhidkova graduated from the I.M.Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy. In 2011 Ms.Zhidkova completed a residency training at the Department of Healthcare Management on the Faculty of Economics and Healthcare Management of the I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. In 2011 Elena Zhidkova graduated from the Marketing Faculty of the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information Technology.
In 2011-2015 Ms.Zhidkova was on postgraduate study at the Department of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management of the I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Elena Zhidkova is an author of numerous articles and publications.
Since 2011 – Deputy Head of Division of Medical Services at the Morozov City Clinical Hospital for Children, since 2013 – head of consultative and diagnostics centre, in 2014 – became head of the ambulatory and polyclinic center of this organization. In 2016, Ms.Zhidkova was appointed Head of the Healthcare Department of JSC Russian Railways. Since May 2016, she is the Head of Central Healthcare Directorate – a branch of JSC Russian Railways. Since January 2017 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stock Company RZD Health.

Igor Kagramanyan

First Deputy Chair, Committee on Social Policy, Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Born on April 30, 1962 in Kaluga region.
In 1986 he graduated from the Yaroslavl Medical Institute with a degree "Doctor (general phisician)". From 1986 - 1991 went from doctor-intern to the head of department in the Yaroslavl regional clinical psychiatric hospital. 1994 - 2007 - Vice Rector of the Yaroslavl State Medical Academy. In 2000 graduated from the Yaroslavl State University with a degree "Lawyer".
In 2007 joined the Department of Health and Pharmacy Yaroslavl region, where he first held the position of the first deputy director of the department, then director of the department . PhD in economics. Was the recipient of numerous awards, including a medal "20years of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan", "For Service to the Motherland» of 2-nd degree , "For the community in the name of salvation", the medal of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation "Excellent Health", badge of honor of the Governor of the Yaroslavl region "For his services in education - high school".
By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation on June 18, 2012 № 1007-r was appointed as Deputy Minister of Health of the Russian Federation.

Maxim Topilin

Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation

Maxim Topilin, Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
From 1988 to 1994, engaged in scientific research. Since 1994, various posts in Russian Government Office.
In 2001, appointed Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. Supervised the issues of employment and human resources development.
In 2004, appointed Head of the newly formed Federal Service for Labour and Employment.
In 2008, appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. Нe was responsible for issues of national labour market policy, and social and demographic policy. One of Mr. Topilin’s successful projects was the development of anti-crisis measures for the labour market during the economic crisis of 2008-2010. Moreover, family social support measures taken at that time improved the demographic situation in the country. Mr. Topilin directly participated in the development of the 2011-2015 state programme "Friendly environment" aimed at the improvement of the quality of life for people with disabilities.
On 21 May, 2012, Mr. Topilin was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. The following issues fall within his competence: labour-management relations, employment, demographic policy, social protection, social security, including retirement security, and state civil service.

Niels Hessmann

General Director, Bayer; General Representative, Russia and CIS, Bayer AG

Niels Hessmann is the Managing Director of Bayer JSC and Senior Bayer Representative in Russia and CIS since March 1, 2015.
Niels Hessmann was born in Belgium and studied applied economic sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He began his career as a Market Research Manager in Schering (now Bayer) in Belgium in 1992.
In 1996, he headed the Marketing and Sales Department of Schering Romania and Moldova.
In 1999, he became the Managing Director of Schering Kazakhstan and was responsible for the company development in Central Asia.
In 2001, he was appointed the Managing Director of Schering Greece. In 2007, he headed Bayer Netherlands and was Bayer Healthcare Representative. During that period, Mr. Hessmann was also responsible for merging Bayer and Schering.
From November 2011 to February 2015, he was the Managing Director and Country Division Head Bayer HealthCare in South-Korea.

Moderator
Andrey Sharonov, President, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Andrey Sharonov

President, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Andrei Sharonov joined Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in September 2013 as Dean, having left the position of Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy in Moscow City Government.Born in 1964 in Ufa, Andrei Sharonov graduated as an engineer from Ufa State Aviation Technical University and as a lawyer from Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation; in 1994 obtained his PhD in Social Studies.From 1989 to 1991 a Member of the Soviet Parliament, Congress of People’s deputies of the USSR; till 1996 chaired the Russian Federal Committee (Ministry) on Youth Affairs.In 1996-2007 occupied the positions of Deputy Minister, State Secretary and First Deputy Minister at Economics Development Ministry of Russian Federation.In the period from 2007 till 2010, Managing Director and the Board of Directors’ Chairman for Troika Dialog (Private Investment Company).Board Member for OJSC NOVATEK, ALROSA Group, Bank of Moscow OJSC, OJSC Sovcomflot, MC NefteTransService LLC and JSC Eco-System Management Company.As of December 22, 2010, by appointment of Moscow City Mayor Decree, Andrei Sharonov served at Moscow City Government as Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Economic Policy in charge of budgeting, industrial and city business development, regional rate regulations as well as competition and public retail and procurement policy, trade and services.Since 2012, Andrei Sharonov is heading Executive Committees of Moscow Urban Forum and Open Innovations Forum.Andrei Sharonov received 2009 “Aristos” Awards as “Independent Director” and “Director of the Year”; the Person of the Year in Business Reputation for 2012.Andrei Sharonov was awarded with the Order of Honour and granted the title of “Honoured Economist of Russian Federation”.

Panellists
Holger Winklbauer, Chief Executive Officer, International Post Corporation
Maxim Grishakov, Chief Executive Officer, Yandex.Market
Nikolai Podguzov, General Director, Russian Post
Ricky Xue, Head of Global Logistics, AliExpress.com; Managing Director, Cainiao Network
Alexander Shulgin, General Director, Ozon Group
Albert Ng, Chairman, EY China; Managing Partner, Greater China
Florian Jansen, Chief Executive Officer, Lamoda Group

Holger Winklbauer

Chief Executive Officer, International Post Corporation

Maxim Grishakov

Chief Executive Officer, Yandex.Market

Market since May 2017. Previously, in his role of Chief Customer Officer he lead the company’s efforts to drive sustainable revenue growth through developing and executing solid customer strategies, delivering sales plans across channels, driving geographical reach, and building strong commercial and selling capabilities in his teams. Maxim is a seasoned leader with over 18 years of experience in FMCG, publishing and retail. Having started his career in consumer marketing, he later moved to general management and led Russian and Mexican businesses of Wm. Wrigley Jr Company as well as Kimberly-Clark in Russia. His latest job was as CEO of food retailer Spar Retail in Moscow. Maxim studied in the Faculty of International Information at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) for several years before moving to the United States. He received his BA degree in marketing communications at Southern Utah University in 1995. He also completed executive programs with Harvard Business School and London Business School.

Nikolai Podguzov

General Director, Russian Post

Born May 29, 1974 in Leningrad.
1997 – graduated Saint-Petersburg State Technical University.
2000 – graduated Moscow State University of International Relations
2000 – 2003 – occupied various positions at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
2003 – 2006 – vice-president of the TRUST bank. 2006 – 2010 – vice-president of the Renaissance capital – Finance Consultant. 2010 – 2012 – deputy head, VTB Capitol.
2012 – 2013 deputy director of the Economics Department at the Government of the Russian Federation.
2013 – 2017 – deputy minister of economic development of the Russian Federation
2017 – CEO of Pochta Rossii, the Russian postal service

Alexander Shulgin

General Director, Ozon Group

Alexander Shulgin was born in May 2, 1977 in Yessentuki in the Stavropol region. Alexander has a degree in Management at the Rostov State University.
As a specialist in finance sphere with 13 years of experience in the field of consumer goods, Shulgin has held various financial positions at Coca-Cola Hellenic in 1997 and 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Coca-Cola Hellenic representation in Russia.
Alexander Shulgin joined the company Yandex as CFO in May 2010. On 1st September 2014, Alexander Shulgin was appointed as General Director of "Yandex".
On December 7, 2017 - appointed to the post of General Director of the OZON GROUP.

Albert Ng

Chairman, EY China; Managing Partner, Greater China

Albert Ng is Chairman of EY China, Managing Partner of EY Greater China, and a member of the Global Executive, EY’s highest global management body. With over three decades of experience in the accounting profession, Albert is well versed in international tax policies, IPOs, SOE reform and Belt & Road initiative. Albert holds various advisory roles including Advisor on Accounting Matters to the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China, Advisor to the International Business Leader’s Advisory Council for the Mayor of Shanghai as well as Economic Advisors to a number of cities in China. Albert is the President of the Hong Kong China Chamber of Commerce, Advisor of the HK Business Accountants Association, Advisory Board member for the School of Accountancy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a member of the Audit Committee of CUHK, Shenzhen, and a member of the Board of Directors of Shanghai University. He is a member of the HKICPA, CPA Australia and ACCA in the U.K.

Florian Jansen

Chief Executive Officer, Lamoda Group

On his previous position as a managing director, he took care personally of the infrastructure investments such as a cutting-edge automated warehouse, large-scale last mile organisation across Russia and CIS and the transformation of Lamoda into a retail platform. During that period Mr Jansen travelled across Russia to establish and maintain Lamoda facilities. Prior to Lamoda, Florian spent several years at McKinsey & Company. He received an MBA at Universität Witten/Herdecke and a dual MPA – at LSE and Columbia University. Mr Jansen still acts as an angel investor and has supported companies in digital spheres such as DOC+, FoodFox (now Yandex.Eda), Manifest, or Exclaim. Since the foundation of the Lamoda in 2011, Florian spends most of the time in Russia where he lives with his family.

Front row participants
Iliya Dimitrov, Executive Director, Association of Electronic Trading Platforms (AETP)
Ilya Kretov, General Director, eBay Russia

Iliya Dimitrov

Executive Director, Association of Electronic Trading Platforms (AETP)

Moderator
Vladimir Gerasimov, First Deputy General Director, Executive Director, Interfax Information Services Group

Vladimir Gerasimov

First Deputy General Director, Executive Director, Interfax Information Services Group

Responsible at Interfax for financial and business information and services for business, and for the operations of the Group's international partnerships. Graduated from Moscow State University's Faculty of Journalism and worked in Foreign Broadcasting before joining Interfax in 1991, where he created the news agency's first business and finance products. Head of business and finance information at Interfax, and, from 1998, became the agency's deputy head, then first deputy head. His projects include SPARK, Russia's leading risk assessment system, and the disclosure site, www.e-disclosure.ru. Oversaw the creation of SPARK Marketing procurement analysis system, and of X-Compliance, Russia's first system for ensuring fulfillment of legislation on the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. Helped set up the United Credit Bureau, a Russian market leader in credit information, and oversees the operations of the joint venture that Interfax set up with Dun & Bradstreet, a market leader for information on foreign companies. Plays an active role in the Open Government, and is a member of the Open Data Council and has served on the public councils of the Federal Tax Service and Federal State Statistics Service in recent years. He is one of the leading media industry managers, according to the Russian Managers Association TOP 1000 ranking.

Panellists
Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy, Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors, Alfa-Bank
Yury Isaev, General Director, Deposit Insurance Agency
Igor Lotakov, Country Managing Partner, PwC Russia
David Rafalovsky, Executive Vice President, Head of Technology Block, Sberbank; Chief Technology Officer, Sberbank Group
Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Professor, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability, Osaka University; Program Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Guzel Sanzhapova, Founder, Cocco Bello
Andrew Somers, President, A.B.Somers & Associates; President, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (2000 - 2013)

Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy

Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors, Alfa-Bank

Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Alfa-Bank on August 1, 2018.
Before Mr. Verkhoshinskiy joined Alfa-Bank, he held various positions at VTB Group. He served as Vice-President and Head of Corporate Business Development and Strategy at VTB Bank from 2009 till 2011. He became Deputy President and Chairman of the Board at the Bank of Moscow in January 2012 to oversee the Retail and Small Business division, mortgage lending, and private banking service. In May 2016, Mr. Verkhoshinskiy returned to VTB Bank after its merger with the Bank of Moscow to oversee Retail Business as a member of the Board.
Prior to his employment with VTB Group, Vladimir Verkhoshinskiy worked for the Moscow offices of Citibank, the investment fund VR Capital, and the consulting company McKinsey&Co.
Mr. Verkhoshinskiy is a cum-laude graduate of the Finance Academy of the Russian Government majoring in Finance and Credit and a holder of the Presidential Scholarship. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree and Public Management Program degree of Stanford University (USA).

Yury Isaev

General Director, Deposit Insurance Agency

Yuri Isaev was born in Moscow on January 1, 1972. In 1994 he graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute, School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics.
In 1992 he joined Russian Credit Bank as economic analyst, where he held various positions, including head of division, Deputy Chairman of the Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Board and President, Chairman of the Board.
2001: President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Impeksbank.
2002 – 2004: Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade.
2004: Advisor to the First Deputy Head of Federal Security Service; Deputy CEO, Rusal.
2005: Chairman of the Board, Russian Development Bank
2007: First Deputy Chairman, Social State Association "All-Russian sports society" Dynamo"
2008-2013: Deputy of the State Duma, V and VI convocation; Deputy Head of Financial Market Committee.
Fluent in English and in French.

Igor Lotakov

Country Managing Partner, PwC Russia

Having joined PwC in Moscow in 1995, Igor became a partner in 2006. During his twenty-year career at PwC Russia, he has helped to build a market-leading practice providing assurance and other services to a wide range of top Russian and international energy and utilities companies. Igor's diverse project track record includes the audit of complex group consolidations, provision of consulting and risk assurance services. In addition to significant client responsibilities, Igor has held a number of leadership roles within PwC. He has led the Russian Oil & Gas, Mining and Utilities practice, was Assurance Leader for Russia and Central & Eastern Europe. Igor is a member of ACCA and a CFA charterholder.

David Rafalovsky

Executive Vice President, Head of Technology Block, Sberbank; Chief Technology Officer, Sberbank Group

David holds a master's degree in Software Development from Tel Aviv University. Mr. Rafalovsky started his career at Citi as a Lead Solutions Architect and worked his way up to the position of Global Head of Finance & Risk Infrastructure Technology and Deputy Head & CTO of Global Functions Technology Services. In December 2017, Sberbank announced the appointment of Mr. Rafalovsky as a Senior Vice President, Technical Director of Sberbank Group and co-head of the Technologies unit. In August 2018, he was appointed as a Head of the Technology block. David began to carry out strategic management of the technological function of the Sberbank Group. In February 2019, David was appointed as an Executive Vice President. He leds the Group's technology strategy, including the introduction of a modern business application platform, innovative cloud infrastructure architecture, advanced enterprise analytics platform and artificial intelligence technologies. He also manages Sberbank's technology laboratories in addition to implementing the basic Agile operating model.

Tatsuyoshi Saijo

Professor, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability, Osaka University; Program Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

He received his PhD in economics at the University of Minnesota (1985). He was lecturer at Ohio State University, assistant professor at UC Santa Barbara, associate professor at Tsukuba, and professor at Tsukuba, Osaka, Hitotsubashi and Kochitech. His major field of interest is an emerging new field called Future Design that aims to design social systems that create ‘futurability’, and to practice those systems where decisions and behaviours towards futurability will make individuals happier if their actions will enrich future generations, even if the current benefit to them is reduced. His major publications include Negotiating with the future in Sustainability Science (2017). He is currently a member of Science Council of Japan.

Guzel Sanzhapova

Founder, Cocco Bello

Andrew Somers

President, A.B.Somers & Associates; President, American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (2000 - 2013)

Andrew B. Somers is President of A.B.Somers & Associates LLC, a consulting firm that assists clients in identifying strategic partners and investment opportunities as well as providing counsel on government relations. Since 2012, He has been Senior Advisor to Teneo Holdings, a New York City based global firm which is a trusted adviser to some of the world’s most respected companies, governments and non-profit institutions. The firm designs and executes strategies to achieve critical business objectives, protect and enhance reputation, navigate legal political and regulatory challenges in order to enhance value. In addition he is currently senior advisor to JUUL Labs, Inc, a leading San Francisco based electronic cigarette company that manufactures and markets its products worldwide. It entered the Russian market in November 2018. Mr. Somers was President and CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Russia for 13 years, from 2000 to 2013, during which time he transformed the Chamber into the most impactful foreign business advocacy organization in Russia. During his tenure he hosted President Obama and President Medvedev at a Moscow CEO Business summit, addressed President Putin and President Bush on business issues affecting American companies in Russia, both at the Kremlin and the New York Stock exchange, and led many business delegations to Washington DC to meet individually with over 100 senators and congressmen as well as high level cabinet officials. Under Mr. Somers’ leadership, AmCham played a key role in Russia’s WTO accession. On June 20, 2011, at his Gorki residence, Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev presented Mr. Somers with the Order of Friendship, the highest Russian state order that can be bestowed on a foreign citizen. On October 18, 2012, Mr. Somers received the Special Recognition award from the City of Moscow for his personal contribution to improving Russia's investment attractiveness. Prior to his Amcham tenure, Mr. Somers served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and member of the Board of the Directors of American Express, TRS Co., responsible for legal and regulatory matters affecting American Express business in the US and throughout the world. Mr. Somers began his career as a prosecutor in New York, as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, and a trial lawyer with the Frauds Bureau. He is a graduate of Columbia University Law School, where he was a Wien Scholar, and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University where he earned his MA in Russian History. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston College.

Front row participants
Patrik Antoni, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ingka Group Russia
Vasyl Latsanych, Chief Executive Officer, VimpelCom
Xavier Rolet, Chief Executive Officer, CQS; Chairman of the Board of Directors, PhosAgro; Former Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group Plc (2009 – 2017)

Patrik Antoni

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ingka Group Russia

Vasyl Latsanych

Chief Executive Officer, VimpelCom

Vasil Latsanich was born in 1972. Became top manager of MTS Ukraine since March, 2011. In October 2005 became MTS Marketing Director. In 2001 – 2005 was head of marketing of MTS Ukraine. Between 1996 and 2001 was employed by Coca-Cola Ukraine and Coca-Cola Bottlers Siberia in a variety of marketing and general management positions. Graduated Lvov’s Lisenko University in 1995. In 2010 Vasil Latsanich became a co-chariman of Tele-committee of American Commerce Chamber in Ukraine. Since 2018 Vasil Latsanich is Chief Executive Officer of VimpelCom

Xavier Rolet

Chief Executive Officer, CQS; Chairman of the Board of Directors, PhosAgro; Former Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange Group Plc (2009 – 2017)

Xavier R. Rolet was the CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) from May 2009 to December 2017. Under his leadership, the company acquired MillenniumIT (2009), Turquoise Holdings Ltd (2010), FTSE Group (2011), TRS (2011), GATElab Srl (2012), EuroTLX Srl (2013), LCH.Clearnet (2013), Bonds.com (2014), Exactpro(2015), XTF (2015) and the Frank Russell Company (2014) from Northwestern Mutual, which in October 2015 sold its asset management division to TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners. In 2016, he acquired Mergent, Inc. and the Yield-Book & Citigroup’s Global Fixed Income Index Business from Citigroup, making FTSE Russell the largest index company in the world with ca $15 trillion of assets under benchmark. In October 2015, LSE Group launched Curve Global, a new futures exchange co-owned with Barclays Bank, Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, BNP Paribas and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Under his tenure, the value of the London Stock Exchange Group increased from £800 million to £14 billion. Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange Group, Xavier Rolet worked for Lehman Brothers, Kleinwort Benson, CS First Boston and Goldman, Sachs & Co.
After graduating from the KEDGE Business School with an MSc in management science and finance in 1981, Xavier served as a second lieutenant and instructor at the French Air Force Academy, and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1984 and a post-graduate degree from Paris-based IHEDN (Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence) in 2008.
Xavier then became a member of the European Securities Markets Expert Group of the European Commission, a member of the French Government’s Conseil Stratégique de l’Attractivité(“Strategic Council for Attractiveness”), a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in France, and a member of Chatham House in London.
Xavier is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia University Business School, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments FSCI (Hon), and was a member of the Financial Services Trade and Investment Board of HM Treasury (FSTIB). Since Oct 2017, he has been a member of the Committee of Expert Advisers at the Department for International Trade. He was also a member of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Business Advisory Group and was a member of the Governor of the Bank of England’s Financial Services Forum and of the Bank of England’s Open Forum. In October 2015, he was appointed an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In December 2015, he was appointed Echansonnier ‘A Camera Paramenti’ of the Echansonnerie de Châteauneuf-du-Pape. In January 2016, President of France Francois Hollande made him a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. In July 2016, he was made an Officer of the Royal Sharifian Order of Al-Alaoui (Order of OuissamAlaouite) by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. In 2017, the highly respected Harvard Business Review included him on their list of the best-performing 100 CEOs in the world. Futures & Options World awarded him its 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the same Lifetime Management award in 2018 from both Risk Magazine and the City of London Wealth Management Association. In April 2018, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Young CEOs Business Summit in Atlanta, USA.
He was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation (Орден Дружбы) by Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko on behalf of Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov.

Moderator
Konstantin Polunin, Partner, Expert, Head of the Public Sector Practice Area in Russia, BCG

Konstantin Polunin

Partner, Expert, Head of the Public Sector Practice Area in Russia, BCG

Konstantin Polunin is a Partner and Managing Director of BCG Moscow office. He joined BCG in 2008 as a Principal and was promoted to a Partner and Managing Director in 2012. He is a member of BCG's global energy and industrial goods practice areas, as well as a core member of BCG's public sector practice. His extensive consulting experience over the past decade includes projects in Russia, CIS and Europe. Konstantin has worked mostly with the clients in energy, chemical, automotive and transportation industries as well as public sector and government in Russia and Europe. He studied chemistry at the Moscow State University and graduated in chemistry at the Technical University Berlin, with focus on organic chemistry and biochemistry. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Russian Academy of Science, with focus on development of new materials, exploring their physical and chemical properties and application opportunities. Since December 2013, Konstantin is a member of the working group on the National Entrepreneurial Initiative under the President's Economic Council of Russian Federation.

Panellists
John Edward Butler Ransohoff, Vice President, Head of Strategic Projects for Innovations and International Partnerships Direction, Bayer AG
Andrei Belousov, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Meir Brand, Vice-President, Google Inc.
Gor Nahapetyan, Serial Entrepreneur and Philanthropist; Co-Founder, Profilum, CrashPro future Careers School, The Friends Foundation
Aleksandra Posarac, Lead Economist, Leader of the Program of Social Protection in the Russian Federation, World Bank Group
Nikolay Solomon, General Director, Federal Competence Centre (FCC)
Svetlana Chupsheva, General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)
Vladimir Yakushev, Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation

John Edward Butler Ransohoff

Vice President, Head of Strategic Projects for Innovations and International Partnerships Direction, Bayer AG

John leads Bayer global external innovation partnerships, including development of alliances with well-established international scientists and research organizations, as well as young and promising scientific start-ups.
John joined Bayer January 1988 as a Laboratory Head in Medicinal Chemistry.
Between 1992 and 1999 he was a Project Manager in Drug Development.
1999 he was named Corporate Vice-president in charge of the Central Coordination of R&D. He spend 6 years in Strategic Planning both at Corporate and Pharmaceutical Division levels, during that period he lead strategy projects in areas such as Therapeutic Proteins, Hematology Research, Innovation in Glucose Monitoring, Toxicology Operations, for several divisions of Bayer AG.
In 2007 he joined Bayer Innovations as Global Project Leader Plant-made-Pharmaceuticals. In this function he was responsible for the development of a technology platform to express therapeutic proteins in planta, in particular, he lead the development of Bayer’s autologous therapeutic cancer vaccine against Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. This included the oversight of investment in a manufacturing plant, introduction of GMPs, certification by local authorities and finally, conducting a proof-of-concept study in patients.
Since 2014, John has been with the Global External Innovations Group, in charge of Venture Capital Investment and European Projects with impact in clinical development.
A native of the Dominican Republic, John studied Chemistry at Heidelberg University. He worked as a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research (Heidelberg) and obtained a Dr.rer.nat. in 1986. He spent two years as Research Associate at Rockefeller University (Tom Kaiser’s Lab) conducting work in molecular biology and enzymology of phosphatases.
John is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Infection and Immunity at St George's, University of London. He is a former member of the German Research Council Evaluation Committee of Chemistry Faculties.

Andrei Belousov

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

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.

Meir Brand

Vice-President, Google Inc.

Graduated with honours from Tel Aviv University with a Degree in Economics.
1998 – received MBA from Harvard University
1999-2001 – Director for Business Development, excite@home (one of leading search systems of the time)
2001-2002 – Vice President for Marketing and Sales, ICQ
2002-2005 – Head of Division for SMB Development, Microsoft Israel
2005-present – CEO, Google Israel; was the first employee
2009-present – Member of the Board of Directors, Google Europe
2009-present – Regional Director, Google in Greece and Africa
2015-present – Regional Director, Google in the Middle East, Russia, and Turkey
2016-present – Vice President, Google
Meir Brand speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Hebrew.

Aleksandra Posarac

Lead Economist, Leader of the Program of Social Protection in the Russian Federation, World Bank Group

Nikolay Solomon

General Director, Federal Competence Centre (FCC)

Born in 1971 in Moscow.
In 1993 Nikolay graduated from the
Moscow State Technical University for
Motor Vehicles and Highway Construction
(MADI) majoring in road machinery, and
then received a degree in International
Economic Relations from the Financial
University under the Government of the
Russian Federation.
From 1994 to 2003 served in different functions in Audit and Management Consulting in
PriceWaterhouseCoopers, focusing on large energy sector companies consulting.
In 2003, he moved to Yukos-Moscow as Director for Project Management and Acting Director
of the Financial and Accounting Centre
In 2005, he was appointed Financial Controller and Director for Economics and Controlling at
the Siberian Coal Company.
In February 2009, he joined Rosatom state corporation as Deputy Director General for
Finance (later as Deputy Director General for Economics and Finance).
In 2011 Mr Solomon hold the office of First Deputy Director General for Corporate Functions
and Chief Financial Officer at Roastom. Until 2018 he was responsible for key directions of
development in the corporation: opportunities to increase efficiency and productivity
identification, Rosatom production system roll-out.
In June 2018 started to work in Federal Competence Center as its General Director.
Nikolay is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Svetlana Chupsheva

General Director, Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI)

Svetlana Chupsheva was born in Prague. In 2001 she graduated from Samara State Academy of Economics with Honors.Commencing from 2000 Svetlana Chupsheva worked at the Central Department of the Bank of Russia for Samara Region, then at the Government of Samara Region.From 2004 she held position of the Director General of the Rating Agency of the Government of Samara Region, and was the head of the State Institution Agency for Economic Development of Samara Region.From 2009 – adviser to the Deputy Chairmen of the Government of Samara Region – Ministry of Economic Development, Investment and Trade of Samara Region, then adviser to the Chairman of the Board of the CB Regional Credit, LLC.From 2011 – corporate director of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI). On August 10, 2015 she was appointed as the line director of the Social Projects of the ASI.From 2017 – Director General of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.She is awarded with the Certificate of Merit issued by the President of the Russian Federation, she has the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the President of the Russian Federation and the certificate of acknowledgement issued by the Mayor of Moscow.She brings up four children.

Vladimir Yakushev

Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation

Front row participants
Anatoly Artamonov, Governor of Kaluga Region
Oleg Byakhov, Director for Business Development, IBM East Europe and Asia
Pavel Gontarev, Director, Мail.ru. Digital Technology
Andrey Ivanov, Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation
Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan
Aysen Nikolaev, Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
Oleg Teplov, Chief Executive Officer, VEB Innovation
Ivan Fedotov, Director, Association of Innovative Regions of Russia (AIRR)
Radiy Khabirov, Acting Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Anatoly Artamonov

Governor of Kaluga Region

Born in 1952 in Kaluga Region.
After graduating from Moscow Agricultural Production Engineering Institute, worked in agricultural and construction sectors of Kaluga Region economy.
In November 1996, he was elected Vice Governor of Kaluga Region.
Since 2000 – Governor of Kaluga Region.
Anatoly Artamonov is one of the most efficient Russian governors, which is proved by Kaluga Region dynamic development. For a number of years it has been holding leading positions among Russian regions according to various ratings.
Anatoly Artamonov holds many awards, including the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Republic of Korea; the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; the Commander of the Legion of Honour, France, and others.
Doctor, Economics.

Oleg Byakhov

Director for Business Development, IBM East Europe and Asia

Oleg Byakhov joined IBM in 2007 to lead consulting for Communications and Public sector in Russia/CIS. Since 2012 he is Associate Partner of IBM Institute for Business Value, business think tank, which is on the top of global thought leadership rankings for the last three years. In 2003 – 2007 Oleg Byakhov headed Department for Strategy of Information Society in the Russian Ministry for IT and Communications. He launched key modernization initiatives for the Russian IT industry, as well as building the National Strategy for Information Society. Prior to this he took business leadership in the professional, marketing and financial services firms.Mr. Byakhov is member of the Expert Councils under the Government of the Russian Federation and ASI. Since 2014 Oleg Byakhov represents IBM in the Industrial Advisory Council of Skolkovo and chairs the Customer Advisory Board of Rostelecom. In 2015 Oleg Byakhov joined the Board of Trustees of the Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don).
During 2013 – 2015 Oleg Byakhov performed guest lectures on business technologies, with strong focus on modern IT, Big Data Analytics, at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management and Sberbank Corporate University.

Pavel Gontarev

Director, Мail.ru. Digital Technology

Andrey Ivanov

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation

Born on November 23, 1975, in Dudinka.
In 1997 graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State University, specializing in jurisprudence.
2009. The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow), specialization in management.
2010. The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow), specialization in economy organizing.
1997 – 1998 – Trainee researcher in the Krasnoyarsk State University.
1998 – 2004 – Leading specialist, Chief specialist of the Krasnoyarsk region Administration, Counselor of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region on legal matters, Counselor of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region on legal matters and local governments. Since December 29, 2001, Council of the Krasnoyarsk region Administration, Counselor of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk region on legal matters and local governments.
2004 – 2008 – Vice-President of the LLC "Sibirskiy mashinostroitelniy holding". Since August 14, 2006, First Vice President of the LLC "SM holding".
2008 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Investment Company "SM art".
2008 – 2012 – Deputy Director of the Department, Director of the Department of Budget policy in the sphere of innovations, civil industry, energy, communication, and public-private partnership of the Finance Ministry of the Russian Federation.
June 2012 – present time – Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation.
Since February 10, 2011, member of the Board of the Finance Ministry.
In 2009 received a citation of the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.
In 2011 rewarded with the medal «The 290-th anniversary of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia»
In 2012 received a citation of the Minister of Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation.
In 2001 rewarded with the medal «For Merit to the Fatherland», 2nd grade.
In 2012 rewarded with the Honorary silver medal «For contribution to the development of agro-industrial complex of Russia» by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

Rustam Minnikhanov

President of the Republic of Tatarstan

Rustam Minnikhanov was born on March 1, 1957 in the Novyi Arysh village of the Rybno-Slobodsky District in the Tatar ASSR.He graduated from Kazan Agricultural Institute in 1978 as mechanical engineer and from Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade (Moscow) as a commodity expert in 1986.
He is a doctor of economic sciences.
1978-1980 - engineer in the Saby District Association of Selkhoztekhnika.
1980-1983 - senior engineer and chief power engineer in the Saby timber industry enterprise.
1983-1985 - deputy chairman of the District Consumer Society Board.
1985-1990 - chairman of the District Consumer Society Board in the Arsk District.
1990-1992 - chairman of the Arsk District Executive Committee.
1992-1993 - first deputy head of the Arsk District Administration.
1993-1996 - head of the Vysokaya Gora District.
1996-1998 - minister of finance of the Republic of Tatarstan.
In 1998, Rustam Minnikhanov was appointed Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan.
From March 25, 2010 - President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
From March 24, 2015 - Acting President of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Order of Friendship (2002); Order of Services to Motherland 4th class (2007); Order of Services to the Republic of Tatarstan (2007); Medal in memory of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg (2003);
Medal in memory of the 1000th Anniversary of Kazan (2005); Medal to mark the three billionth ton of oil in Tatarstan (2007); Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2008); Laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2009); Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation (2009); Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation (2010); Gratitude of the of the President of the Russian Federation (2012); Gratitude of the of the Government of the Russian Federation (2012, 2013); Order of Honor (2014).

Aysen Nikolaev

Head of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Born on January 22, 1972 in Leningrad
1994 - graduated from the physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Started his career in finance corporation «SAPI»
1995 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of «Almazergienbank»
1998 – The Chairman of «Almazergienbank»
2004 – Minister of Finance of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2007 – Chief of the Presidential and Government Administration of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2011 – First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2012 - 2017 – Mayor of the city of Yakutsk
May 2018 – appointed as acting Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
The Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) since September 2018
He was elected to the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Granted title of honor «Honored Worker of National Economy of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)». Decorated with diplomas of the Federation Council, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Oleg Teplov

Chief Executive Officer, VEB Innovation

Oleg Teplov is the Chief Executive Officer of VEB Innovations, a subsidiary of Vnesheconombank (VEB) Group, a Russian economist, banker, and financier. He is one of the creators of the National Technology Initiative state program.

Oleg Teplov has been working in the finance industry and public sector for about 20 years, specializing in technological development of the Russian economy. Before joining VEB Innovations, Oleg held the position of referent at the Expert Directorate with the President of the Russian Federation, where he was involved in the development and implementation of the National Technology Initiative (NTI) and drafting the Digital Economy of Russia state program. As a referent at the directorate, he created the system of NTI governance and expansion and developed the National Ranking of Investment Climate in the Constituent Territories of the Russian Federation.

Oleg also leads the Strategic Planning Unit of the Economy and Finance Department at the Executive Office of the Government of Russia, as well as the Strategic Planning Department at the Ministry of Economic Development, where he coordinated the activities of the Strategic Initiatives Agency, Industrial Development Fund, Roseximbank, MSP Bank, and Russian Direct Investment Fund. He also held executive positions in major Russian banks and the global “Big Four” auditing firms.

At present, VEB Innovations under Oleg Teplov's management makes high-risk direct investments in technology-related projects, creates venture funds jointly with major Russian corporations and global partners, as well as fostering investment and technology cooperation with R&D centers, major businesses, and development institutions.

Special attention in his activities is paid to high-potential ICT (information and communication technology) and other projects for the space industry, vertical marketplace initiatives, as well as investments in artificial intelligence, robotics, online education services, and telemedicine. Pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and new energy-related technologies are prioritized as well.

Ivan Fedotov

Director, Association of Innovative Regions of Russia (AIRR)

Director, AIRR, Vice Rector, RANEPA
Born on April 11, 1978 in Moscow.
In 2000 he graduated from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation (ANE). He defended his thesis in 2004. He was conferred the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 2007, he received the title of Associate Professor.
Experience:
2001-2002: Executive Director, “International Investment Symposium” Center of ANE.
2002-2004: research fellow, “Investment Management School” Center of ANE.
2004-2007: Deputy Dean, the Faculty “School of Economics of Land Markets” of ANE.
2007-2009: Vice-Dean, the Faculty of Economics of Real Estate, ANE.
2006-2008: leader of the Innovative Educational Program in the framework of the National Priority Project “Education”.
2009 till present: Vice-rector, RANEPA.
Since 2010: Director, the Gaidar Forum – the annual international applied research conference in the sphere of economics.
2012: he supervised the development of socio-economic strategy in Russia up to 2020 (Strategy 2020) on behalf of RANEPA.
2016 till present: Director, the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia.
Fluent in English and French. Awarded with the Medal of the Second Class Order For Merit to the Fatherland.
Married, brings up a son.

Radiy Khabirov

Acting Head of the Republic of Bashkortostan

He was born on March 20, 1964 in the village of Sayranovo, Ishimbay district, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1989, he graduated from the Law Faculty of Bashkir State University, in 1994, he received a master’s degree at the University of Bilkent (Turkey).
He began his career in 1981 as a milling machine apprentice operator at the Ishimbay Transport Engineering Plant.
In 1982–1984, he served in the USSR Armed Forces.
From 1989–1992, he was Assistant Professor at the Department of State Law and Soviet Construction, Faculty of Law, Bashkir State University.
From 1994–2003, he held the posts of Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor, Deputy Dean of the Law Faculty, Director of the Law Institute, Bashkir State University.
From 2003–2008, he was as the Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
In 2008, he headed the Department for Relations with the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and Political Parties of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate.
From 2009–2016, he served as the Deputy Head of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate.
From 2017–2018, he became the Head of the Krasnogorsk city district of the Moscow region.
Candidate of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Full State Counselor 2nd class of the Russian Federation.
Candidate Master of Sports in Greco-Roman wrestling.
He was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation, was awarded the Order of the Republic of Crimea "For Fidelity to Duty".
Married, three children.

Moderator
Mikhail Shvydkoy, The Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation

Mikhail Shvydkoy

The Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation

Panellists
Alexander Auzan, Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Marina Loshak, Director, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Christoph Leitl, Honorary President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
Simon Mraz, Director, The Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow
Andrey Fursenko, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Sabine Haag, General Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Alexander Auzan

Dean, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Mr. Aleksandr A. Auzan was born in Norilsk on July 11, 1954.
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University and now holds a degree Doctor of Science (Economics) and Professor.
At the end of 1980s, Mr. Auzan became one of initiators to start consumer right associations. He was a member of the Bureau of Consumers International, a global consumer organization. From 2005 to 2011, he was head of the Association of Russian Economic Think-Tanks (ARETT). He was a member of the RF Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights and the RF Presidential Commission for Modernization and Technological Development of Russia's Economy. He also was head of the Advisory Working Group of the Commission. From 2011 to 2012, Aleksandr Auzan was head of the Expert Group "Optimization of State's Presence - Reducing Regulatory Functions and Ensuring Transparency and Feedback from Citizens and Businesses" to update Strategy 2020. Currently, he is a member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Advisory Council under the Russian Government, Governmental Commission on Administrative Reform.
Mr. Aleksandr A. Auzan is the author of more than a hundred scientific papers, including four monographs. He regularly publishes articles and gives interviews to the media. He also gives lectures on institutional economics, modernization of the economy, socio-cultural values, and dynamics of the social contract. It has many years of practical experience in advising national and regional governments.

Marina Loshak

Director, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

Christoph Leitl

Honorary President, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber

Simon Mraz

Director, The Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow

Andrey Fursenko

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Born on July 17, 1949, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). 1971 – graduated from Zhdanov Leningrad State University; Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. 1971-1991 – junior researcher, laboratory head, deputy director for research, leading researcher at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. 1991-1993 – Vice President of Advanced Technology Centre, St Petersburg. 1994-2001 – Director of Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development, St Petersburg. From 2000 – Chairman of the Academic Council of the Centre for Strategic Research North-West Foundation. 2001-2002 – Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From June 2002 – First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From December 2003 – Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. March 9, 2004 – appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. State award – Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Sabine Haag

General Director, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Front row participants
Anton Klepikov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of Perm Territory
Andrey Kuzyaev, President, Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors, ER-Telecom Holding
Vladislav Panchenko, Chairman of the Board, Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Andrei Rudskoi, Rector, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Zelfira Tregulova, General Director, The State Tretyakov Gallery

Anton Klepikov

Deputy Chairman of the Government of Perm Territory

Andrey Kuzyaev

President, Chairman of the Management Board, Member of the Board of Directors, ER-Telecom Holding

Andrey Kuzyaev, born on October 6, 1965, in Perm, Russia.
In 1987, he graduated from the Perm State University with a degree in Economics.
In 1991, founded and took the lead of one of the first exchanges in Russia, Perm Commodity Exchange, later reorganized to become Perm Financial and Industrial Group (PFIG) of which he is Chairman of the Board and owner. One of the main assets of PFIG since 2005 is ER Telecom Holding. The Group also holds assets in oilfield services, financial sector, and real estate. PFIG consists of 50 companies that employ over 20 000 people.
Since its establishment in 1995 and until 2003, Andrey Kuzyaev was General Director of LUKOIL-Perm, a subsidiary of LUKOIL Oil Company. In 2000, he was appointed President of LUKOIL Overseas, operator of LUKOIL's international upstream projects, and in 2005, Vice President of LUKOIL Oil Company.
In December 2014, he was elected Chairman of the Board of ER-Telecom Holding, and in July 2015, he was appointed as President of the company.
Andrey Kuzyaev is also Chairman of the Board of the Far East and Baikal Region Development Fund and Chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Perm State University.

Vladislav Panchenko

Chairman of the Board, Russian Foundation for Basic Research

Date of birth: 15.09.1947

Graduated from:
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU),
Faculty of physics
Ph. D and Doctor of science in Physics, MSU

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
RAS Presidium Member
Full Professor
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), President
Global Research Council (GRC), Chair (GRC – international organization of more than 100 national science funding agencies)
MSU, Medical Physics Department, Chair
Federal Research and Development Center for Crystallography and Photonics, Scientific Director
International Society for Optical Engineering (former SPIE), Russian Chapter, President (1998-2006)
SPIE Fellow Member
Optical Society of America (OSA), Member of the International Directorate (1999 – 2001)

Renowned Russian scientist in the fields of
Physics of laser-matter interaction, non-linear optics
Laser material treatment and laser micro-nanotechnology
Laser and information 3 D additive technologies for biomedical applications, medical physics

Laureate of the Russian Federation State Prize
Laureate of the Russian Federation Government Prize

Holder of
Order For Merit to the Fatherland (Russia)
Order of Friendship (Russia)
National Order of the Legion of Honour (France)

Andrei Rudskoi

Rector, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

Zelfira Tregulova

General Director, The State Tretyakov Gallery

Moderator
Nikolay Korzhenevsky, Economic Observer, Russia 24 TV Channel

Nikolay Korzhenevsky

Economic Observer, Russia 24 TV Channel

Mr. Korzhenevsky earned his Master’s degree at State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and had internship at Stanford University (California, USA). He specialises mainly in international finance; the core area of his academic interests is the interrelationship between financial markets and macroeconomic processes. He worked as author and presenter of the Markets programme on RBC-TV and later as Deputy Director of the Centre for Economic Forecasts, Gazprombank. Since 2013, Mr. Korzhenevsky has been author and presenter of the programme Economics: Day Rates on TV Channel Russia-24, which is devoted to key macroeconomic and financial topics of the day. He also highlights the main economic events (Davos Forum, SPIEF). In parallel he is working on his thesis Contemporary Methods of Monetary Policy and the Implicit Function of Central Banks. He is also continuing his academic activities at the HSE.

Panellists
Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Andrea D’Amico, Vice President, Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Booking.com B.V.
Mikhail Degtyarev, Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture, Sport, Tourism, and Youth Affairs, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Zarina Doguzova, Head, Russian Federal Agency for Tourism
Petr Ivanov, General Director, Federal Passenger Company
Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of Primorsky Territory
Andrey Nikitin, Governor of Novgorod Region
Ksenia Shoygu, Adviser to the Deputy Chairman of the Board, Gazprombank; Member, Kronstadt Development Working Group

Olga Golodets

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born on June 1, 1962 in Moscow.
1984: Graduated from the Economics Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
PhD (Economics).
1984-1997: Researcher at the Central Research Laboratory of Labour Resources of the R&D Institute of Labour and the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Employment Problems Institute.
1997-1999: Social Programmes Director, Reformugol Foundation.
1999-2001 and 2002-2008: Director, Social Policy and Human Resources Department; Deputy Director General for Human Resources and Social Policy at Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel.
2001: Deputy Governor for Social Issues, Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Area.
July 2008-December 2010: President of the All-Russian Inter-industry Association of Employers – National Alliance of Nickel and Precious Metals Manufacturers; Board Chairperson at the Soglasiye Insurance Company.
December 2010- May 2012:Deputy Moscow Mayor for Education and Healthcare and Member of the Moscow Government.
May 21, 2012: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister by Presidential Executive Order.

Andrea D’Amico

Vice President, Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Booking.com B.V.

As Vice President and Managing Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Andrea D’Amico is responsible for leading operations for Booking.com across this region, including accommodation partner growth and retention, exploring business development opportunities and ensuring best-in-class service and support for both customers and partners.
In his 15 years with the company, Andrea has served in a variety of regional leadership roles for Booking.com. Most recently, he was Regional Director for Italy, the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa, a position he was first appointed to in 2008. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Regional Director in APAC, with a focus on opening new offices, hiring local staff and building relationships with accommodation partners throughout the region.
Andrea first joined the company in 2003, back then as part of the Active Hotels team in Cambridge, responsible for developing the Mediterranean region. After the acquisition by Booking Holdings (then The Priceline Group), Andrea moved to Amsterdam and later opened Booking.com’s Rome office as the Area Manager for Italy in early 2006.
Before Booking.com, Andrea worked in various capacities for Italian OTA Venere.com, including as International Sales Manager.
Andrea holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from La Sapienza University in Rome, and is fluent in Italian and English.

Mikhail Degtyarev

Chairman of the Committee for Physical Culture, Sport, Tourism, and Youth Affairs, State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Zarina Doguzova

Head, Russian Federal Agency for Tourism

Petr Ivanov

General Director, Federal Passenger Company

Year of birth - 1970
Education
In 1993 graduated from the Financial Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation with a degree in International Economic Relations.
In 2005 graduated from Moscow State Law Academy with a degree in Law.
Work experience
1991 – 1992 – Deputy Head of division, chief economist at “Kredo Bank”.
1992 – 1998 – Head of foreign currency division – Chief Manager of “Montagspecbank”.
1998 – 2005 ¬– Deputy General Director at “Mosgortrans”.
2005 – 2006 – Deputy Head of Transport and Communications Department, Moscow city Government.
2006 –¬ 2013 – General Director of “Mosgortrans”.
2013 ¬– 2015 – Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government.
2015 – 2016 – Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Region Government – Transport Minister of the Moscow Region.
In January 2016 appointed as General Director of JSC “FPC”.

Oleg Kozhemyako

Governor of Primorsky Territory

Oleg Kozhemyako was born on 17 March 1962 in Chernigovka village, Chernigovsky district, Primorye Territory.
Graduated from the Khabarovsk School of Mechanics, passed compulsory military service in the Armed Forces; graduated from the Far Eastern Institute of Soviet Trade (Pacific State Economic University) specializing in Economics.
Started working in 1981 in the sphere of production and worked his way up from a regular mechanic of 3rd class to foreman at the Primorskaya State District Power Station.
In October 1989, created Primorsky production co-operative store that transformed into Primorskoye food production association in 1992.
In 1995, was elected Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors at OJSC Preobrazhenskaya Base of Trawler Fleet.
In 1998–2002, Chairman of the Board of Directors at OJSC Preobrazhenskaya Base of Trawler Fleet.
On 9 December 2001, elected Deputy of the 3rd Legislative Assembly of the Primorye Territory, served as a member of the Committee on Food Policy and Environmental Management.
On 27 November 2002, elected Representative to the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Primorye Territory Legislative Assembly, served as a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, served on the Committee on Youth and Sport and the Committee on Information Policy.
Since October 2004, served as Advisor to Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironov.
On 18 January 2005, appointed Vice-Governor of Koryaksky Autonomous Area, managed issues of the delivery of goods to the Northern territories and provision of the region with fuel.
On 9 March 2005, appointed acting Governor of Koryak Autonomous Okrug.
On 14 April 2005, approved as Governor by the Legislative Assembly of the region.
In July 2007, included into the Advisory Committee of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
In 2007–2008, worked as Aide to the Head of the Presidential Executive Office.
On 20 October 2008, approved as Governor of the Amur Region by deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Region.
On 25 March 2015, appointed acting Governor of the Sakhalin Region by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
On 13 September 2015, elected by over 67% of the citizens of Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands at the direct early elections of the Governor of the Sakhalin Region.
On 21 September 2015, officially took the office of Governor of the Sakhalin Region.
Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation of the 3rd Class. PhD in Economics.
Married with a son and a daughter.

Andrey Nikitin

Governor of Novgorod Region

Born in 1979 in Moscow.
2001 – graduated from State University of Management.
2007 – was awarded EMBA degree at Stockholm school of Economics.
2002-2011 – held key positions in Ruskompozit Group of companies composed of the largest Russian enterprises which do business in the markets of glass fibre, composite and geosynthetic materials.
2009 — was appointed Director General of Ruskompozit Management Company LLC.
Since 27.07.2011 – held a position of the CEO of the Agency of Strategic Initiatives (ASI).
13.02.2017 – was appointed the acting governor of the Novgorod region by the Presidential Decree.
Member of the Presidium of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for economic modernization and innovative development of Russia.
Member of the Presidium of the Presidential Council for Strategic Development and Priority Projects.
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects.
Awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II class and the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude.
Ph.D. degree in Economics.
Married.

Ksenia Shoygu

Adviser to the Deputy Chairman of the Board, Gazprombank; Member, Kronstadt Development Working Group

Front row participants
Alexey Kalachev, Chief Executive Officer, Russia Convention Bureau
Olga Suslova, Director for Strategic Partnerships, Google Russia
Khasan Timizhev, General Director, Northern Caucasus Resorts
Olga Tkacheva, Deputy General Director for Strategic Development and Marketing, Flotiliya
Giovanni Toti, President of the Liguria Region
Tatiana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation

Alexey Kalachev

Chief Executive Officer, Russia Convention Bureau

Has a vast experience in largest private companies and government bodies. Draws on 15 years in communications, event and project management, which includes organizing and managing Russian and international event projects, exhibitions and conferences, as well as public relations. His main focus is efficient cooperation with event industry players, such as private companies, international industry associations, Russian and foreign state companies, as well as partners representing other industries.
Has held a number of large events both in Russian and foreign venues and provided communications support for government bodies and private companies.
Has worked outside Russia, focusing on event industry, business contacts and organizing exhibitions and congresses for both Russian and foreign participants.

Olga Suslova

Director for Strategic Partnerships, Google Russia

Khasan Timizhev

General Director, Northern Caucasus Resorts

Giovanni Toti

President of the Liguria Region

Giovanni Toti is a political advisor and was a member of the European Parliament, since 2015 he is the Governor of Liguria Region.
He was born on the 7th September 1968 in Viareggio and raised in Massa Carrara, he graduated in Political Science at the University of Milan. He is married with Siria Magri, journalist of Milan.
Since 2006 he is a chartered journalist of Milan. On 22th February 2010 he became director of “Studio Aperto” and on 28th March 2012 of “TG4”, two of the main news broadcasts in Italy.
He resigned for both these assignments in order to take on the role of political advisor, with a view to the European elections of 25th May 2014. He finally was elected member of the European Parliament with 148,291 votes.
On 1st April 2015 he presented his candidacy in order to become President of Liguria in the regional election of May. Toti was elected President with 34.4% of votes.
Since 2015 (July) he is the Vice President of the Conference of the Regions and Autonomous Provinces
The 20th August 2018 he has been named Commissioner – Delegate for for emergency related to the collapse of the Morandi bridge.

Moderator
Igor Yurgens, Chairman of Advisory Board, Baltic Forum; Chairman of the Management Board, Institute of Contemporary Development

Igor Yurgens

Chairman of Advisory Board, Baltic Forum; Chairman of the Management Board, Institute of Contemporary Development

Mr. Yurgens is the President of the All-Russian Insurance Association (ARIA) and the President of the Russian Association of Motor Insurers (RAMI), The President of National Union of Liability Insurers (NULI), the Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), a member of the Management Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights, a member of the Academic Council of the Security Council of the Russian Federation and a member of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, a member of Russian Council on International Affairs.
Born in Moscow in 1952, Mr. Yurgens graduated from the Economics Department of Moscow State University in 1974. He is a professor of the Higher School of Economics and author of numerous articles and monographs.
Igor Yurgens is Honorary Consul General of Monaco in Moscow.
He is the recipient of several state and international awards, including the Order of Honor of the Russian Federation, L’Ordre National du Mérite of France and Order of Saint Charles of Monaco.
Fluent in English and French, Igor Yurgens is married and has one daughter.

Panellists
Anton Alikhanov, Governor of Kaliningrad Region
Visvalds Busils, Chairman, NK Tehnologija
Jonas Viesulas, Director, FEROGAMA; Member of the Presidium, Lithuanian Confederation of Employers
Tiit Vahi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Port of Sillamae
Alexander Kolpakov, Chairman, Russia – Latvia Business Council
Igor Maksimtsev, Rector, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics
Victor Trigubko, Senior Vice President, Mechel
Sergei Cheryomin, Minister, Head of Department for Foreign Economic Activity and International Relations, Moscow City Government; Chairman of the Board, Business Council for Cooperation with India

Anton Alikhanov

Governor of Kaliningrad Region

Born September 17, 1986 in Sukhumi, Abkhazia.
Mr. Alikhanov graduated from the All-Russia State Tax Academy under the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, majoring in Law, as well as Finance and Credit, and got a PhD in Economics.
Anton Alikhanov started his career in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in 2010. In 2013 he got a job in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
In September 2015 Mr. Alikhanov was appointed the Acting Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast by the President.
Awards:
- 2-nd degree Medal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for outstanding diligence;
- President’s Certificate of Merit.
Married, with two children.

Tiit Vahi

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Port of Sillamae

Date and place of birth: 10 January 1947, Estonia
Nationality: Estonian.
Present positions:
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
investment company Valga Group Ltd.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Port of Sillamäe Ltd.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
stevedoring company SilSteve Ltd.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Sillamäe Power Plant Ltd.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Silport Real Estate Ltd.
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
holiday center Pühajärve Puhkekodu Ltd.
Chairman of the Board
investment company Silmet Group Ltd.
ESTONIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.
Member of the Board.
Estonian Employees Union
Member of the Board
Previous positions
Prime Minister (three times) of the Republic of Estonia - 1992, 1995, 1996-1997
Deputy of Riigikogu (Parliament) 1997
Chairman of the Tallinn City Council 1993-1995
Minister of Transportation of Estonia 1989-1992
Knowledge of languages.
Native language: Estonian
English proficiency: good
knowledge of German: good
knowledge of Russian: good
Marital status: Married, two grown-up children
Academic and professional training:
1970 - Tallinn Technical University, Faculty of Mechanics
(graduated cum laude)
1993 - Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft (Cologne, Germany), studies in financial and economic sectors
1990 - Studies at York University (Canada), Faculty of Economy,
Graduate Diploma of International Business.

Igor Maksimtsev

Rector, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics

Victor Trigubko

Senior Vice President, Mechel

Educational: In 1982 Viktor Trigubko graduated from Law School of Kalinin (Tver) State University. Professional Background: 2005 – August 2006 – Vice President for Government Relations, Mechel 2003 – 2005 – Vice President and Representative in Central and Eastern Europe, Mechel; Chairman of Mechel Campia Turzii, Romania; Board Member of Mechel Targoviste 2003 – 2003 – Director of Mechel International Holdings AG, Romania 1997 – 2002 – Head of Moscow Representative Office, Izhstal 1992 – 1997 – management positions in Unibros Steel Co. LTD, including Deputy CEO 1982 – 1992 – International Relations Department of USSR State Committee for Employment and Social Policy in USSR Trade Representative Office in Romania.

Sergei Cheryomin

Minister, Head of Department for Foreign Economic Activity and International Relations, Moscow City Government; Chairman of the Board, Business Council for Cooperation with India

Born July 5th , 1963 in Kislovodsk.
In 1989 graduated with honors from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a specialization in international journalism and completed his postgraduate course at Moscow State University specializing in global economic issues.
In 1992, he was an intern at the New York Institute under the Investments and International Accounts Program and in 1993 joined a course for banking specialists at Fairfield University (USA).
From 1991 to 2003 Mr. Cheremin headed various banks.
In 2004, he was appointed CEO of Moscow Bank of Reconstruction and Development (MBRD).
From 2005 to 2009 he acted as the Chairman of the Board of MBRD, he also served as Senior Vice President and Head of External Relations of JSFC Sistema.
From 2009 to 2010 — Deputy Chairman of the Board of JSFC Sistema.
From 2009— Chairman of the Board of Business Council for Cooperation with India, member of the Russian-Indian Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation.
November 8th 2010, Mr.Cheremin was appointed Minister of the Moscow City Government, Head of the Moscow City Department for External Economic and International Relations.
In 2015 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Russian-Indian Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation.

Moderator
Peter Lаvelle, Anchor, RT

Peter Lаvelle

Anchor, RT

Peter John Lavelle is a senior journalist and host of “CrossTalk”, presented by the English-language channel RT, a global multilingual television news network (formerly "Russia Today"). Lavelle, from California, is now based in Moscow. Prior to “CrossTalk”, Peter Lavelle hosted RT's programs “IMHO” (In My Humble Opinion), “In Context”, and a business program called "On the Money."
Lavelle received a B.A. in International Economic Relations, an M.A. in European history, and completed Ph.D. courses in Studies in European Economic History from the University of California, Davis. He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He has been living in Eastern Europe and Russia for over 25 years, working as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, a market researcher for Colgate-Palmolive, and an investment analyst for brokerage firms, including Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Lavelle has contributed articles to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, The Moscow Times, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, United Press International, The National Interest, and Current History. Lavelle also was the author of "Untimely Thoughts", an electronic newsletter.

Panellists
Mikhail Zadornov, President – Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank
James McCormack, Global Head of Sovereign and Supranational Ratings Group, Fitch Ratings
Timur Maksimov, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Pankin, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank
Jean-Pierre Thomas, President, Thomas Vendome Investment
David Hauner, Head of Emerging Markets Economics & Strategy, EMEA, Bank of America Merrill Lynch International Ltd.
Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China
Frank Schauff, Chief Executive Officer, Association of European Businesses

Mikhail Zadornov

President – Chairman of the Management Board, Otkritie FC Bank

1963 – Born in Moscow.
Education:
1980–1984 – Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy). Degree: Economic planning. Qualification: Economist;
1985–1988 – Graduate School of the Institute of Economics, USSR Academy of Sciences;
1989 – Candidate of Economic Sciences (topic ‘Return on Investment in the Renewal of Fixed Capital of Industrial Enterprises’).
Professional Activities:
1988–1990 – Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, USSR Academy of Sciences;
1989–1990 – an expert of planning and budgetary commission of the USSR Armed Forces;
1990 – a member of the RSFSR Council of Ministers Commission for Economic Reform; one of the authors of the 500 Days programme;
1991–1993 – Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Economic and Political Research (EPICenter); participated in the EPICenter projects ‘Consent to a Chance’ (Harvard, USA, 1991) and ‘Nizhny Novgorod’ (1992);
1993–1995 – Deputy of the 1st State Duma, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banking and Finance;
1995–1997 – Deputy of the 2nd State Duma, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banking and Finance;
December 1997 – May 1999 – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation;
May 1999 – First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;
June 1999 – October 1999 – Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with international financial institutions;
November 1999 – January 2000 – Special Adviser to the President, Sberbank of Russia;
January 2000 – December 2003 – Member of the State of Duma of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chair of Budget and Tax Committee, Chairman of the Monetary Policy, Currency Regulation and Central Bank Operations Subcommittee;
December 2003 – July 2005 – Member of the State of Duma of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Budget and Tax Committee of the Monetary Policy, Currency Regulation and Central Bank Operations Subcommittee;
July 2005 – present – President and Chairman of the Management Board, VTB 24.
Key publications: Author of more than 50 books and articles published both in Russia and abroad.

James McCormack

Global Head of Sovereign and Supranational Ratings Group, Fitch Ratings

James McCormack is a managing director and global head of sovereign and supranational ratings, based in Hong Kong.
James re-joined Fitch in October 2013 from the Bank of Canada where he held a senior credit role. Prior to this, James spent three years with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong where he was an Executive Director in credit risk management and advisory. James joined Goldman Sachs in 2010 from Fitch, where he held various senior roles in the Sovereign Ratings Group, including
Head of the Asia-Pacific Sovereign team.
Prior to joining Fitch, James was a country risk analyst for Export Development Canada and an economist for the Department of Foreign Affairs in Ottawa. James began his career as an economist at Wharton Econometrics (WEFA) Canada.
James earned a BA in economics from York University (Canada) and an MA in international economics from the University of Toronto.

Timur Maksimov

Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Dmitry Pankin

President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Black Sea Trade and Development Bank

Mr. Dmitry Pankin was appointed President of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) as of 16 July 2018, for a period of four years.
Mr. Pankin is a Russian national, born in 1957. He graduated from the Economic Faculty of St. Petersburg State University and holds a PhD degree in Economics. He has also completed professional development courses at Bocconi University in Milan and at the City University Business School in London.
In 1990-1995, Dmitry Pankin was Deputy Head of Financial Committee at the St. Petersburg Mayor’s office. In 1995-2003, he was Chairman of the Board at the St. Petersburg Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In 1999-2000, he headed Treasury Department at the Unified Energy System of Russia, the national electric power holding company. In 2004 Mr. Pankin joined the Department of International Financial Relations, Public Debt and Public Financial Assets at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and held progressively more responsible positions before becoming Deputy Minister of Finance in 2008. In 2011-2013, he headed the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation. Mr. Pankin was reappointed Deputy Minister of Finance in 2013 and also became the Governor for the Russian Federation at BSTDB, until he took the position of Chairman of the Management Board of the Eurasian Development Bank in 2015, where he worked until the end of 2017.
Mr. Pankin speaks Russian and English.
He is married and has a daughter

Jean-Pierre Thomas

President, Thomas Vendome Investment

2013: creation of his own company “THOMAS VENDÔME INVESTMENT”: private Equity, Real Estate Investments and advisory especially for European and Russian companies. 1998 – 2013: LAZARD partner. Former representative of French President Nicolas Sarkozy – French – Russian economic cooperation. March 2012: report on the creation of an economic Euro – Russian area. Appointed by the French Ministry of the Economy to follow cross-boarder investments and programme of privatizations between France and Russia within C.E.F.I.C. (Conseil Economique, Financier, Industriel et Commercial). Political career. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: one of the leaders in Republican Party. Member of Finance Committee : spokesman on the Economy and the Budget, Special Finance Committee reporter. Author of the Thomas Law (March 1997) for creating pension funds in France. The Euro : Representant of the Parliament at the Euro Committee. Privatisations: in 1998, as a Member of the Parliament, he wrote a book “Les privatisations”. Member of the International Advisory Board of RUSAL, member of the board of RECYLEX Group. Advisor of SANOFI. Senior Advisor of the president of AMUNDI. Member of the “Cercle de l’Union Interalliée”. Born in 1957 in Vosges (France).

Paul Chan

Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China

Mr Chan is a Certified Public Accountant. He is a former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and a former Chairman of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Hong Kong.
Before joining the Government, Mr Chan held a number of public service positions including member of the Legislative Council; Chairman of Legal Aid Services Council; Board Member of the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority; non-official member of the Strategic Development Commission and Council Member of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mr Chan served as Secretary for Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government from July 2012 to January 2017. He was appointed Financial Secretary on 16 January, 2017.

Frank Schauff

Chief Executive Officer, Association of European Businesses

EDUCATION:
DEC. 2000 – DEC. 2003: Doctor of Philosophy in East European History, University of Cologne
OCT. 1992 – SEPT. 1993: London School of Economics and
Political Science (LSE), Master of Science (Econ)
APR. 1989 – SEPT. 1992: Studies at the University of Cologne and at the
Volgograd State University, USSR
CAREER OVERVIEW:
JUN. 2007 – PRESENT: Chief Executive Officer, Association of European
Businesses in the Russian Federation (AEB)
JUL. 2001 – JUN. 2007: Advisor, Foreign Policy to the Party Executive of the Social
Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), Berlin
OCT. 2001 – APR. 2005: Lecturer, Institute for East European Studies, Free University, Berlin
JULY 1999 – JUNE 2001: International Secretary, Young Socialists, Bonn/ Berlin
DEC. 1998 – DEC. 2003: Chairman, German Youth Council (DNK) JULY 1996 – JUNE 1999: Managing Director, Social Democratic Youth Organisation
in the Rhineland, Cologne
SEPT. 1995 – AUG. 1996 Research in the Russian Archives, Moscow
MAY 1995 – MAY 1996 Project Manager, Association for Social Security Policy and
Research (GVG), Cologne
APR. 1994 – MAY 1995 Clerk, City Administration of Cologne

Front row participants
Alexander Zhukov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Xu Sitao, Chief Economist, Partner, Deloitte, China

Alexander Zhukov

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Born June 1, 1956 in Moscow. In 1978 graduated from the Economics Faculty at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1991 received his diploma from the International Business School at Harvard University. In 1980—1991 worked at the Ministry of Finance, USSR.
Mr Zhukov has been elected six times (in 1993, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011 and 2016) as a Member of Parliament of the Russian Federation. At the second and third convocations of the Duma he was Committee Chairman for the budget and taxation.
During December 2003—March 2004 and since December 2011 till nowadays he is the Member of Parliament - First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
During March 2004—December 2011 Mr Zhukov took up the post of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Whilst working for the Russian Federation government he was responsible for the work of the ministries of the Economic Block, as well as for social policies. In 2004—2011 he headed the Board of Directors at the Russian Railways. Since April 2013 has been co-chairman of the Public Council on the development of fast and high-speed railways in the Russian Federation.
In September 2016 he was elected as Member of Parliament - First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 7th convocation.
In the Duma, Mr Zhukov is responsible for creating programmes on legislative activities; leading work on the inter-factional group for developing the President’s Message; overseeing the work of the (tripartite) groups for the improvement of inter-factional relations in the Russian Federation; working with all the budgetary and financial committees of the State Duma, as well as with the Committee of State Construction and the Law; organizing cooperation with the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, with the government, and the executive power. He is also working at the Presidium of the Economic Council, under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation.
Over the course of many years Mr Zhukov has been in charge of support for high performances sports. Since May 2010 he has been President of the Russian Olympics Committee. In 2013 was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee.
Chairman of The Bolshoi Theatre’s Board of Trustees.
Chairman of the Public Council of The International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Tower”.
Member of the Supreme Council for the United Russia Party.
His interests include football, chess and golf.

Xu Sitao

Chief Economist, Partner, Deloitte, China

Sitao is Chief Economist of China, Partner at Deloitte. Formerly, he was at The Economist Group from 2004 to 2014 and held various positions. Before joining The Economist Group, Xu Sitao worked for ICBC (Asia), the overseas flagship of China’s largest bank, as the Head of Economics in 2003. Prior to this, he was Societe Generale’s Chief Economist for Asia (ex-Japan) from 2001 to 2002. He joined Standard Chartered Bank as Regional Treasury Economist in 1996. Previously, Xu Sitao was the Economist for Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand in Singapore, working for MMS International of Standard and Poor’s Group in 1995. Xu Sitao holds a B.A. in Economics from Peking University, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Connecticut, and a M.S. in Finance from Boston College. He has been a columnist for Caijing and 21st Century, China’s leading business publications and has contributed frequently to leading regional and international publications, such as YaleGlobal Magazine, the Asian Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. He appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg, CCTV, and other TV shows as a commentator on Asia and an accomplished public speaker and lecturer. Xu Sitao speaks regularly at board meetings of major corporations and major conferences for institutional investors and policymakers.

Moderator
Tinatin Kandelaki, General Producer, Match TV

Tinatin Kandelaki

General Producer, Match TV

Tina (full name: Tinatin) Kandelaki was born on November, 10 1975 in Tbilisi (Georgia). Her father is an economist and her mother a physician.
Tina graduated from the journalism department of Tbilisi State University and from the department of international relations of the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Prior to 1995, she worked at Radio 105 radio station and for Georgian television.
After 1995, she worked for the radio stations and television channels M-Radio, RDV, Serebryany Dozhd, 2x2, Biz-TV, Muz-TV, Vremechko on TVC, YV-6 in Moscow.
2002–2007: host of the Detali programme on the STS TV Channel.
From 2003: host and producer of The Smartest programme.
2008–2011: host of the TV programme Unreal Politics on REN TV and later on NTV channels.
In 2008, Ms. Kandelaki became a co-owner of Apostle Media (later –Centre for Strategic Communications Apostle), specialising in PR and production of television and video content.
In 2010, she was author and host of the discussion programme Alternative on the Vesti FM radio station.
In August 2011, she organised and conducted the first National Educational Forum Smart School.
2010–2012: member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation.
In 2013, together with Margarita Simonyan, she co-hosted the political talk show Iron Lady on the NTV channel.
From 2014, she was co-investor and art director of the elite club village Shelestovo in New Moscow.
In July 2015, Tina was appointed General Producer and Deputy General Director of the consolidated sports editorial board established on the basis of the new federal TV Channel Match TV.

Panellists
Vladimir Komlev, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, National Payment Card System
Eric Jing, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Ant Financial Service Group (Alipay)

Vladimir Komlev

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, National Payment Card System

Education
In 1989, Mr. Komlev graduated cum laude from Bauman Moscow State Technical University majoring in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Systems and Robotics).
In 1989, he completed training at Business and Management School of the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.
In 1995, he graduated from Moscow School of Economics majoring in Bank Accounting.
In 2000, Mr. Komlev graduated cum laude from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation majoring in Banking and Finance.
In 2011, he studied at Harvard Business School.
Career
Since August 2014 ― Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Management Board of NSPK JSC.
2000 - 2014 ― General Director of CJSC United Card Services.
1995 - 2000 ― Vice-President, Deputy General Director of CJSC United Card Services.
1991 - 1995 ― Deputy General Director, later on General Director of LLC Profit-FORMS.
1989 - 1991 ― Head of Foreign Economic Department of ISA (Intersectoral State Association) Prominform.

Eric Jing

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Ant Financial Service Group (Alipay)

Eric Jing, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ant Financial Services Group
Eric is Chairman and CEO of Ant Financial, and serves on the board of Alibaba Group. Eric currently serves as senior consultant for the World Bank Group and World Economic Forum, and as advisor to the International Monetary Fund. He is also a member of the United Nations’ Task Force on Digital Financing. Eric graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and earned an Executive MBA from the University of Minnesota.

Moderators
Aleksey Ivanov, Director, Institute of Law and Development HSE - Skolkovo, Director, BRICS Antimonopoly Centre, National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anna Numerova, Partner, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

Aleksey Ivanov

Director, Institute of Law and Development HSE - Skolkovo, Director, BRICS Antimonopoly Centre, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Alexey Ivanov – Harvard University (LLM), Russian School of Private Law (Master of Private Law), Director of the HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development. Since 2012 Alexey has been teaching a course of lectures on Antitrust Regulation in the New Economy at the Higher School of Economics Faculty of Law. This course addresses the key challenges for development of competition law and policy over a backdrop of dramatic technological change. Alexey has long-standing professional experience in the court system, the public federal service, as well as in leading positions in large commercial energy and steel companies. For five years Alexey has served as Director of the Department for Legal Policy and Social Development at the Skolkovo Foundation, where he has been involved in research and legislative work aimed at the promotion of innovative activity in Russia. Aleksey is a director of the BRICS Antimonopoly Centre that specializes in reseach of pharmaceutical and digital markets of BRICS nations.

Anna Numerova

Partner, Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners

Anna Numerova has been advising on competition law matters since 2007. She deals with a wide range of antitrust law issues and represents clients before the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (the FAS Russia) in course of cartel investigations and cases on abuse of dominance. Her client list include industrial and mining businesses, as well as pharmaceutical companies from Russia and abroad. She works a lot on mandates from pharmaceutical sector clients advising them on public procurement, trade policy implementation and compliance, M&A antimonopoly clearance and many everyday legal issues related to their operations in Russia.
Anna is a member of Competition Experts Association, and of the Non-Profit Partnership “CIS Competition Support Association”. For over eight years Anna has served as a member of General Council of Competition Experts Association, and acted as Chairwoman of the latter for four years. She also plays an active role in the specialist committees of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the American Bar Association (ABA). In 2015 Anna was awarded a Second-Class Medal of the Order of Merit for the Motherland.

Panellists
Marwan Akar, General Director, MSD Pharmaceuticals; Managing Director, MSD Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan
Tembinkosi Bonakele, Commissioner, Competition Commission of South Africa
Matthias Wernicke, General Manager, Merck Biopharma Russia and CIS
Dennis Davis, Judge, President, Competition Appeals Court of South Africa
Hans Duijf, Vice-President, Russia and Belarus, Novo Nordisk
Natalia Kolerova, General Manager, Oncology Department, Russia, Ukraine and CIS, Novartis AG
Payal Malik, Economics Adviser, Head of the Economics Division, Competition Commission of the Republic of India
Dmitry Morozov, General Director, BIOCAD
Irina Panarina, General Manager, AstraZeneca Russia and Eurasia
Vikram Singh Punia, President, Pharmasyntez
Andrey Tsarikovskiy, State Secretary – Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation
Zhao Chunlei, Director of Monopoly Agreement Office, Anti-Monopoly Bureau, State Administration for Market Regulation of People’s Republic of China (SAMR)

Marwan Akar

General Director, MSD Pharmaceuticals; Managing Director, MSD Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan

Г-н Акар начал работу в MSD в качестве инженера-технолога производства. По мере развития карьеры он занимал разные должности с возрастающей сферой ответственности, руководил проектами по трансферу технологий производства вакцин и других лекарственных препаратов, способствовал наращиванию производственных мощностей MSD и компаний-партнеров по всему миру.
В 2008 году г-н Акар был назначен на пост руководителя операций производственного подразделения MSD в регионах «Восточная Европа, Ближний Восток и Африка» и «Европа и Канада». В этой роли он поддерживал стратегические проекты по развитию бизнеса, а также отвечал за партнерства с локальными производителями, в том числе в России.
Г-н Акар получил диплом магистра в Мэрилэндском университете (США) по специальности «Химик-технолог». Он также закончил обучение по программе МВА (Магистр делового администрирования) в Имперском колледже Лондона.

Tembinkosi Bonakele

Commissioner, Competition Commission of South Africa

Tembinkosi Bonakele has been the Commissioner of the South African Competition Commission since 2013. Mr Bonakele joined the Commission in 2004 and occupied various positions in the Commission’s core divisions. He was appointed Deputy Commissioner in 2008, and prior to that worked as head of mergers, head of compliance, and senior legal counsel respectively. Mr Bonakele’s accomplishments at the Commission include establishing the Cartels division.
Mr Bonakele is an admitted attorney and previously practised with Cheadle Thompson and Haysom in Johannesburg largely in the areas of labour law, regulation, and health and safety. He has also spent a year working in corporate finance and antitrust groups at Clifford Chance, New York office.
He has recently co-edited a book titled, Competition Law for the New Era. He holds a BJuris and an LLB from the University of Fort Hare and an MBA from Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria. Mr Bonakele currently serves as the Chairperson of the African Competition Forum, is a member of the BRICS competition forum and a member of the International Competition Network Steering Group. Bonakele is also a member of the JSE’s Take-Over Regulation Panel and is the Chairperson of Buffalo City Development Agency. Bonakele is an activist who has been a leader in the youth and student movement and is a former President of the Student Representative Council of the University of Fort Hare.
He is a recipient of the Black Management Forums’s Black Excellency Award and is a regular speaker at international competition policy conferences.

Matthias Wernicke

General Manager, Merck Biopharma Russia and CIS

Matthias holds a Master’s as well as Doctor’s degree in Economics from Oxford University, UK.
Before joining Merck, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Co in Berlin providing consulting services to customers from the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.
Matthias joined Merck in 2014 as a European Head of Market Access & Pricing.
From June 2015 to September 2017, Matthias Wernicke was Managing Director of Merck Austria, based in Vienna.
In October 2017, Dr.Wernicke was appointed General Manager of Merck Biopharma Russia & CIS.

Dennis Davis

Judge, President, Competition Appeals Court of South Africa

Judge Dennis Davis was educated at Herzlia School, Universities of Cape town (UCT) and Cambridge. He began teaching at UCT in 1977 and was appointed to a personal chair of Commercial Law, in 1989. Between 1991 and 1997 he was Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies of the University of the Witwatersrand. He held joint appointment at Wits and UCT 1995 - 1997. He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 1998 and as President of the Competition Appeal Court in 2000. Since his appointment to the Bench, he has continued to teach constitutional law and tax law at UCT where he is an Hon. Professor of law.
Dennis is a member of the Commission of Enquiry into Tax Structure of South Africa and was a Technical Advisor to the Constitutional Assembly where the negotiations for South Africa's interim and final constitutions were formulated and concluded. He hosted a TV programme, Future Imperfect which was an award winning current affairs programme between 1993-1998.
He has been a visiting lecturer/professor at the Universities of Cambridge, Florida, Toronto and Harvard.

Hans Duijf

Vice-President, Russia and Belarus, Novo Nordisk

Hans Duijf was appointed Vice President of Novo Nordisk in Russia and Belarus since September 1, 2017.
Mr. Duijf is a Dutch national, born in June 1974. He moved to Moscow with his family, wife and two daughters, from Colombia, where he held the position of General Manager of the Novo Nordisk affiliate since 2015.
Mr. Duijf has nearly 20 years of experience in the affiliates and regional headquarters of Novo Nordisk in established and developing markets in Europe, South-East Asia and Latin America. Under his leadership diverse teams of different cultures consistently succeeded in improving performance and introducing innovative approaches. Mr. Duijf began his career in sales and marketing in the UK, and later participated in the product launching in the markets of different countries. He has extensive management experience in positions such as Marketing Director, Business Development Director, General Manager, Vice President.
Hans Duijf has received education in international marketing and strategic management and holds a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

Natalia Kolerova

General Manager, Oncology Department, Russia, Ukraine and CIS, Novartis AG

Natalia Kolerova became the Oncology General Manager at Novartis in April 2014. In this position she supervised the development of the oncological segment in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS. Since 2017, she also holds the position of General Director at Novartis Pharma LLC in Russia.
Natalia joined Novartis in 2008 as the head of a new business unit of specialized medicine. In this position, she managed to efficiently organize the operations of the unit and successfully bring six new products to the Russian market, including Galvus® and Gilenya®. Later, Natalya headed the unit of introducing pharmaceutical products into the market, where she supervised the accessibility of pharmaceuticals from the company’s oncology portfolio at the federal and regional levels.
Natalia graduated from the Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy with a degree in Pharmacology, as well as the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Sociology. She holds an MBA degree.
Before joining Novartis, Natalia held senior positions at the Russian representative offices of the international pharmaceutical companies Abbott Lab SA and Sanofi-Aventis.

Payal Malik

Economics Adviser, Head of the Economics Division, Competition Commission of the Republic of India

Payal Malik is Adviser, Economics and Head of the Economics Division at the Competition Commission of India. She is on secondment from PGDAV College, University of Delhi, where she is an Associate Professor of Economics. Formerly she has been a visiting Senior Research Fellow LIRNEasia. She was also visiting National Law University Delhi and teaching a course on Economics of Competition Law to the LLM students. Her areas of expertise are competition law, policy and regulation. She has several years of research and economic consulting experience in network Industries such as power and telecommunication, ICTs, Innovation systems, and Infrastructure.
Previously she has been a senior consultant at the Center for Infrastructure and Regulation, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), India. At NCAER she has been a lead researcher on various infrastructure development projects including Telecom, Electricity, Highways, and Water and Sanitation. She was on the team that drafted the Electricity Act of India ushering competition into the sector.
She has a BA (Hons.) in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi and an MA and MPhil in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. She also has an MBA in finance from University of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dmitry Morozov

General Director, BIOCAD

DOB: 01.02.1965 | POB: Moscow | Marital status: married, 3 children

In 2001 he founded BIOCAD CJSC, the leading Russian innovative biotechnology company of the full cycle, which is the leader on the Russian oncological market by the results of 2017.

AWARDS:
• Gratitude from the Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovation of St. Petersburg for conscientious work and strengthening the scientific and production potential of St. Petersburg;
• Appreciation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation for contribution to the development of the pharmaceutical and medical industry and long-term conscientious work;
• Gratitude from the Governor of St. Petersburg;
• Honorary sign "Investor of the Year" for the implementation of the best investment project in the sphere of industry in St. Petersburg;
• Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg for outstanding achievements in the field of higher and secondary vocational education in the nomination "In the field of integration of education, science and industry" for 2015;
• The Russian Government's Quality Award for achieving high results in the field of product and service quality and the introduction of high-quality methods of quality management for 2016;
• Member of the Subcommission on Drug Administration of the Government Commission for Health Protection;
• Member of the Expert Council for the Development of the Pharmaceutical Industry under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia;
• Included in the Expert Council under the FAS Russia.

AWARDS 2017:
• St. Petersburg's "Investor of the Year" award for the implementation of the best investment project in the industry for 2017;
• The "TechUspech-2017" Prize;
• Joined the list of top managers in the pharmaceutical industry according to the version of the Top 100 project of the Delovoy Peterburg newspaper.

Irina Panarina

General Manager, AstraZeneca Russia and Eurasia

Since May 2017 Irina Panarina has been appointed to the position of General Manager of AstraZeneca, Russia and Eurasia. Irina is responsible for AstraZeneca business in Russia & Eurasia Area and she leads AstraZeneca Russia.
Irina Panarina has worked for AstraZeneca since 2009. In October 2015 Irina joined the Russian team as Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Business Unit Head. Before coming to Russia, Irina Panarina held the position of General Manager at AstraZeneca Ukraine.
Prior to joining AstraZeneca Irina held regional roles at GSK Pharma headquarters in London, UK.
Irina Panarina has work experience in marketing, product portfolio management, people development.
Irina Panarina has degrees from Newcastle University & South Bank University. She also holds MBA degree from INSEAD Business School.

Vikram Singh Punia

President, Pharmasyntez

Born on March 15, 1973 in Jaipur, India. Russian citizen.
Graduated from Birla Public School in Pilani. In 1992 started his higher education in Russia, at Irkutsk State Medical University. Later graduated from the Far Eastern Federal University, majoring in Finance and Credit. Married, with three children.
Founder of Pharmasyntez, member of the Leaders’ Club to Promote Business Initiatives (a non-profit partnership), Co-Chairman of the Business Council for Cooperation with India, participant in several investment forums and business missions.
Pharmasyntez manufactures medicinal drugs for socially significant diseases, such as tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cancer, hepatitis and diabetes. The company’s profile includes over 113 various pharmaceutical forms and dosages – caps, pills, granules, IV solutions, sterile dry powders, solutions for injection and lyophilisates. Currently Pharmasyntez has five GMP compliant manufacturing facilities in the following Russian cities: Saint Petersburg, Tyumen, Bratsk, Irkutsk and Ussuriysk. The company employs over 1500 qualified specialists.
Pharmasyntez was number one Russian pharmaceutical manufacturer based on hospital purchases in 2016 (and No. 5 out of all pharmaceutical manufacturers, based on hospital purchases records). In 2016 it also became the fastest growing Russian manufacturing company with the revenue of 12 billion, which has doubled in comparison with 2014.
Currently Pharmasyntez is Russia’s leader in manufacturing medicinal agents for tuberculosis, retrovirus and cancer. Farmasintez does innovative R&D and exports pharmaceutical agents from Russia. The company is Irkutsk’s biggest tax payer.

Andrey Tsarikovskiy

State Secretary – Deputy Head, Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation

Graduated from Saint-Petersburg Engineer-Economy Academy, specialization economy and organization of engineering industry, honored qualification engineer-economist.In 1995 he has became assistant to the Member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg. A year later, he was appointed as a Chief of Staff of the First Vice-Governor - Chairman of the Finance Committee of St. Petersburg City Administration. Under his guidance a set of law enforcement acts and administrative rules of Saint-Petersburg Administration in the sphere of state finance management were elaborated.From 1999 till 2004 – Director of scientific-research programs, executive director of “EPICENTER –Saint- Petersburg Foundation”. Is a draftsman of several legislative initiatives at the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the sphere of economy, finance, taxes and antimonopoly policy.Since 2004 – Deputy Head of the FAS Russia, since July 2006 till now – Stats-secretary – Deputy Head of the FAS Russia. Andrey Tsarikovskiy is a member of Governmental Commission on legislative activity, Governmental Commission on Economic Development and Integration, Military-Industrial Commission under the Government of the Russian Federation.Andrey Tsarikovskiy is the active participant of the FAS’s Russia international cooperation with foreign organizations and competition authorities in the sphere of antimonopoly policy, combating unfair competition, state regulation of natural monopolies and control over public procurement.

Zhao Chunlei

Director of Monopoly Agreement Office, Anti-Monopoly Bureau, State Administration for Market Regulation of People’s Republic of China (SAMR)

Zhao Chunlei, Director of Monopoly Agreement Office, State Administration for Market Regulation of PRChina. She is a government lawyer and has worked for 10 years in the anti-unfair competition and anti-monopoly law enforcement departments.

Moderator
Maxim Filimonov, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Editor, TASS Russia

Maxim Filimonov

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Chief Editor, TASS Russia

Maxim Filimonov was born in Tallin August 8, 1974. In 1996 he graduated journalism department of Moscow State University. Since 1993 worked a journalist for a number of different outlets: Baltic News Service, Reuters, Prime TASS, Vremya MH, Vedomosti. Since 2002 – chief editor, Russian language section, Moscow Reuters officeSince 2007 – deputy chief editor, RIA Novosti Since 2011 – first deputy chief editor, RIA Novosti In 2014 joined TASS as an adviser to the CEOIn 2015 became deputy CEO, chief editor of TASS.

Panellists
Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida, Chief Executive Officer, Qatar Financial Centre
Alexander Voloshin, Chairman of the Board, Analitycal Center "Forum"; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, First Freight Company (PGK)
Oleg Vyugin, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Moscow Exchange PJSC; Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, Rosneft
Hubertus Vaeth, Managing Director, Frankfurt Main Finance eV
Arnaud De Bresson, Chief Executive Officer, Paris Europlace
Anatoly Karachinsky, President, IBS Group
Bob Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC
Dmitry Snesar, Senior Vice President, Head of Client Coverage, VTB

Alexander Voloshin

Chairman of the Board, Analitycal Center "Forum"; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, First Freight Company (PGK)

Oleg Vyugin

Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Moscow Exchange PJSC; Member of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, Rosneft

Oleg Vyugin was born in the city of Ufa on July 29, 1952. He graduated from the faculty of mechanics and mathematics of the Moscow Lomonosov State University and holds a PhD degree in physics and mathematics. Mr Vyugin authored over 20 science research papers and publications on the probability theory and macroeconomic modeling. Oleg Vyugin holds the honorary title of the Distinguished Economist of the Russian Federation.
Currently, Mr Vyugin is the member of the Board of Directors, independent director, Chairman of Strategic Planning Committee PJSC Rosneft Oil Company, professor of the Economics Department at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics. He also sits on the boards of other institutions: Russian National Association of Securities Market Participants NAUFOR (Chairman), the National Settlement Depository (Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board), Moscow Exchange (member of the Council), Skolkovo Ventures LLC (member of the Board of Directors), Fund «Center for strategic research» (member of the Board), National Council for Corporate Governance (Presidium member).
Mr Vyugin is the Member of Economic Council of the President of the Russian Federation, a member of the Expert Board of the Russian Federation Government, member of the Chairman’s Advisory Board of the Bank of Russia, member of the Public Council of the Russian Finance Ministry.
In different periods, Mr Vyugin held the posts of the First Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, First Vice-Chairman of the Bank of Russia, Head of Federal Service for Financial Markets, Extraordinary Advisor of the Russian Federation Prime Minister, Executive Vice-President of Troika-Dialog Investment Company, Senior Advisor for Russia and CIS of Morgan Stanley Bank LLC, Chairman of the MDM Bank Board of Directors

Hubertus Vaeth

Managing Director, Frankfurt Main Finance eV

During his 12-year tenure at Deutsche Bank, Hubertus Väth held the positions of Analyst, Head of Communications and Chief Economist for Asia and Global Head of Marketing for Wealth Management at offices in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Singapore. He is the Founder and CEO of the NewMark Group, established in 1997 and specialized in market research, business consulting and financial communication. In 2008, Väth was appointed Managing Director of Frankfurt Main Finance, the Financial Centre initiative for Frankfurt and the leading Financial Centre in Germany and the Euro Zone. Most recently, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC), which was created to facilitate cooperation and exchange of best practices among international financial centres and to foster greater exchange with international public authorities. Väth regularly speaks at international financial conferences on Brexit, FinTechs and Financial Centre Development; Euro Clearing and Green Finance. Väth is a Partner Fellow of the Financial Think Tank of AFCA and publishes regularly in this capacity. He is a member of Rotary Club and has a Diploma in Economics from the University Mainz, Germany. Väth is an occasional lecturer at Universities and Business Schools.

Arnaud De Bresson

Chief Executive Officer, Paris Europlace

Arnaud de BRESSON was born in 1955. He graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (1978), University of Paris II (1978) and University of Paris X (1977).
Since 1993, Arnaud de BRESSON is Managing Director of Paris EUROPLACE, the organization which develops and promotes the French financial marketplace.
Paris EUROPLACE gathers the major players of the Paris financial center, French and international issuers, investors, banks and financial institutions, as well as the market Authorities. Arnaud de BRESSON is also Managing Director of the Institut Europlace de Finance (EIF), created in 2003, and Vice-President of FINANCE INNOVATION, the Paris international financial services cluster, launched in 2007. He is Chairman of the World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) created in 2018, member of the Board of the French-Chinese Committee, and member of the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
From 1985 to 1992, he was Director of TGF (a fund management company part of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations group) and Managing Director of FICOM (financial communications). From 1981 to 1985, he was Project Manager for AFME (Agence française pour la maîtrise de l’énergie), after being a financial Analyst in the “Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations” in 1980 and 1981.
Arnaud de BRESSON is Chairman of the Concert d’Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle HAÏM.

Anatoly Karachinsky

President, IBS Group

Born July 12, 1959 in Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, Computer Science, Technical Cybernetics Department, specialising in System Engineering.
1981–1986: Computer Centre at the All-Union Research Institute for Railways.
1986–1988: Director, Prosystem (an Austrian company).
1988–1992: Director, Intermicro Joint Venture.
1992–1997: President, IBS.
Since 1997: President, IBS Group.
Member of the Interdepartmental Commission on Science and Innovation Policy.
Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Union’s Committee on Professional Development and Professional Qualifications.
Member of the Public-State Council on the System of Independent Appraisal of the Quality of Professional Education.
Member of the Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation on Federal State Educational Standards.
Member of the Expert Council attached to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luxoft, an NYSE traded public company.
Married, with two sons.

Bob Moritz

Global Chairman, PwC

From 2009, Bob led PwC US as its chairman and senior partner. During his tenure, the US firm focused on increasing quality service and enhancing its brand and reputation by developing and retaining key talent and expanding its capabilities across all areas of the business. Bob speaks widely on, and is a champion for, diversity and inclusion in the workforce as well as being an advocate for workplace flexibility.
Bob has been with PwC his entire career, joining in 1985 and becoming a partner in 1995. His background is in assurance, primarily serving financial services companies. During his career he spent three years with PwC Japan, where he provided audit and advisory services to numerous European and US-based financial services organisations operating in Japan and across Asia.
Bob has held a number of leadership roles within PwC, including leading the US Assurance practice and serving as the Managing Partner for the New York region. He recently completed two terms as the Chairman of the Governing Board for the Center for Audit Quality, a non-partisan and non-profit group dedicated to enhancing investor confidence and public trust in the global capital markets.
Bob is certified as a public accountant by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of CPAs and the New Jersey State Society of CPAs. He is a trustee of The Conference Board, a member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and a director of the Oswego College Foundation. He graduated from SUNY - Oswego.

Dmitry Snesar

Senior Vice President, Head of Client Coverage, VTB

Moderator
Boris Smolkin, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation

Panellists
Sergey Bykovskih, President, Henkel Russia
Viktor Evtukhov, State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
Mikhail Karisalov, Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, SIBUR
Elisa Markula, President, Chief Executive Officer, Tikkurila Oyj
Sergey Momtsemlidze, Chairman of the Board of Directors, URALCHEM JSC
Maxim Protasov, Head, Russian Quality System (Roskachestvo)
Anatoliy Tikhonov, General Director, Russian Energy Center of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation

Sergey Bykovskih

President, Henkel Russia

Since 2013 Sergey Bykovskih is appointed as President of Henkel Russia and Chairman of the local Board of Directors.
In his operational role as General Manager Sergey Bykovskih is also responsible for Henkel’s Beauty Care business in Russia and CIS.
Henkel in Russia is organized into three business sectors: Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care and Laundry & Home Care.
Henkel annual turnover in Russia is about 1 billion Euro.
Henkel Russia operates 9 production sites.
Over 2600 employees are working in Henkel business units in Russia.
Education:
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Degree in international relations & journalism
University of Antwerpen/IBS Moscow
Executive MBA
Foreign languages: German, English
Married, 2 sons
Date of birth: 28.02.1965

Viktor Evtukhov

State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation

Education:
1993 – Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute with a major in economic cybernetics.
2002 – Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Law.
2004 – Master’s degree from Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of International Relations.
2003 – Defended his post-graduate dissertation and granted the degree of candidate of economic sciences.
2008 – International Management Institute of St Petersburg (IMISP) under the Masters of Business Administration programme.
Professional experience:
1998 – Elected deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (second convocation) for the 33rd Electoral District (Moskovsky District) and was twice re-elected in 2002 and 2007.
2009 – Appointed member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation – Representative in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the Government of St. Petersburg; representative of Saint Petersburg State University in the government and administrative bodies of the Russian Federation.
2011 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2012 – Appointed Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2014 – Appointed State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation under an order of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Mikhail Karisalov

Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, SIBUR

Year of birth: 1973.
1998: Graduated from the Russian Civil Service Academy under the President of the Russian Federation, where he majored in State and Municipal Management
2009: Graduated from the West-Siberian Institute for the Humanities, where he majored in State and Municipal Management
2010: Completed professional retraining course Chemical Technology of Natural Energy Sources and Carbon Materials at Tyumen State Oil and Gas University
2003–2005: Various positions at OAO AK SIBUR, including Advisor to the President, Director of Procurement, Head of Logistics and Capital Construction
2005–2006: Various positions at OAO SIBUR Holding, including Head of Logistics and Capital Construction and Head of Hydrocarbon Feedstock Department
2006–2008: General Director of OAO SiburTyumenGaz 2006–2011: Vice-President – Head of Hydrocarbon Feedstock Department at the Management Company OOO SIBUR
Since 2007: Member of the Management Board of PJSC SIBUR Holding 2009–2012: General Director of OOO Tobolsk-Polymer
2011–2012: Executive Director of the Management Company OOO SIBUR
Since 2016: Chief Operating Officer of OOO SIBUR.
Since 2018: Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of OOO SIBUR.

Elisa Markula

President, Chief Executive Officer, Tikkurila Oyj

B. 1966.
M.Sc. (Econ.) International Marketing, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration.
2010 - Senior Vice President, Paulig Group, Managing Director, Oy Gustav Paulig Ab (Coffee division).
2006−2009 - Country Manager, Oy Suomen LEGO Ab (Finland), Member of the Management Team, Nordic-Benelux Business Unit.
2003−2006 - Sales Director, Oy Snellman Ab.
2000−2003 - Key Account Manager and Trade Marketing Manager, Oy SCA Hygiene Products Ab.
1998−1999 - Brand Manager, Oy SCA Hygiene Products Ab.
1993−1998 - Area Marketing Manager, Fazer Chocolates Ltd, (1994-1995 based in St. Petersburg, Russia).
Board memberships:
2015 - Olvi Oyj (listed).
2016 - President, European Coffee Federation.
2014 - The Association of Finnish Advertisers (Mainostajien liitto).

Maxim Protasov

Head, Russian Quality System (Roskachestvo)

Born: 1972 in Moscow. Graduated from the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University and completed postgraduate research at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 1999 through 2005: member of the Supervisory Council of the National Securities Market Association, of the expert council of the Financial Markets Committee under the State Duma of the Russian Federation. 2011 through 2015: held the position of Chairman of the Management Board of the National Association of Producers and Suppliers of Foodstuffs Rusprodsoyuz. June 2015: appointed head of the Autonomous Non-commercial Organization Russian Quality System (Roskachestvo), set up by Russian Government Directive. Is an active participant in many expert organisations, in particular Open Government, Expert Council of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, working group of the Public Council of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation on foodstuff quality, member of the Commission for Supervising the Code of Fair Practices. Married with three children.

Anatoliy Tikhonov

General Director, Russian Energy Center of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation

Front row participants
Yulia Gorbunova, Vice-President, Russian Chemical Society
Yaroslav Kuznetsov, Chairman of Board of Directors, PJSC “Khimprom”
Alexander Mazhuga, Rector, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

Alexander Mazhuga

Rector, Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia

Moderator
Wang Yanzhi, General Director, Silk Road Fund

Moderator
Herman Gref, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Herman Gref

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Sberbank

Herman Gref was born on February 8, 1964, in the village of Panfilovo, Irtysh District, in the Pavlodar Region of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
1990: graduated from the Law Faculty at Omsk State University, specializing in Jurisprudence. He also holds a PhD in Economics.
1991–1992: legal counsel, category 1, for the Committee for Economic Development and Property of the Administration for Petrodvorets and St. Petersburg.
1992: appointed head of the Petrodvorets District Agency of the Committee for the Management of Municipal Property, St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office.
1992–1994: Chairman of the Property Management Committee, Deputy Head of Petrodvorets Administration.
1994: became Vice-Chairman and then Senior Vice-Chairman of the Committee for the Management of Municipal Property, St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office.
1997–1998: Deputy Governor, Chairman of the Committee for the Management of Municipal Property, St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office.
1998–2000: Senior Deputy Minister for State Property of the Russian Federation.
2000–2007: Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
Since November 2007: CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of OAO Sberbank of Russia.
Awarded orders “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Honour, order of Alexander Nevsky, the P.A. Stolypin medal, 2nd degree, the order of Faithful Saint Prince Daniil Moskovsky, 1st degree, the Certificate of Merit and Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation.
He was awarded the highest French distinction, and was made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur.
For special achievements in the banking sector and his personal contribution to the development of Sberbank, he was awarded the Golden Sign of Sberbank of Russia.

Panellists
Frans van Houten, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Management and the Executive Committee, Royal Philips
Sergey Kirienko, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation
Bob Moritz, Global Chairman, PwC
Guo Ping, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Rotating Chief Executive Officer, Huawei
Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow