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Maxim Safonov is an international affairs expert in economics, and a prominent specialist in the banking services area. He has worked for a long time on the practical problems of developing banking and non-banking financial organizations, located in Russia and abroad. He has several decades of publications on the issues of national economic security, the regulation of financial systems, and anti-crisis management using financial organizations. Professional experience: 2013-present: advisor/deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2011-2014: doctoral candidate at RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation (out of work) 2001-present: senior lecturer/associate professor/professor at the Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Russian government/ RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation 1999-2002: Chief Consultant of the Board of Directors/ Head of Analysis, Forecasting and Strategic Planning / Head of the Department of Development and Planning of the Bank for Foreign Economic Activities (Vnesheconombank). 1998-1999: director for corporate financing/deputy general director of Unicon/Consulting group 1996-1998: working and training abroad 1994-1996: advisor on specialized projects, City Mayor’s Office, St. Petersburg 1991-1992: general manager, Russian-American joint venture, the Hermitage Marketing Company Education 1982-1987: Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Orientalist and historian 1992–1994 : Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, International Affairs, PhD Related Program. 1996–1998: — John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Continuing Education Program, Business to Government Relations 1998-2000: The Banking Management Center/Faculty of Finance and Banking Business, Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Government of the Russian Federation, Finances and Credit, Banking Business, economist 2007-2009: Doctoral candidate at the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian, The global economy and international relations, dissertation theme: “The Development of Approaches to Improve the Competitiveness of the National Economy by Attracting International Capital”. 2011-2014: Doctoral candidate at RANEPA, Management and the national economy sector, doctoral thesis on the “Transformation of the Management of Financial Resources in the National Economy Esing the Example of the Modernization of Public Corporations”.

Igor Akhmerov was born on August 3, 1965 in Russia. Education: Graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Moscow Institute of Management in 1989 with a degree in management in the machine engineering industry. 1990–1993: Financial services consultant at the Moscow and Boston offices of the international advisory firm Bain & Company. 1993–1995: Studied at the Wharton Business School and the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania; obtained an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship and an MA in international business in 1995. Elected to the Lauder Institute Board for a two-year term. 1995: Continued career at the Boston office of Bain & Company, specializing in energy and private equity. 2001–2004: Vice President, First Deputy CFO of OAO TNK. After the acquisition of 50% of its shares by BP, Mr. Akhmerov was in charge of strategic development and investment in his capacity as Vice President for Investment Management at the newly formed TNK-BP. 2004–2007: CFO at the Renova Group. March 2007: Mr. Akhmerov was put in charge of renewable energy projects in Russia and abroad. Igor Akhmerov has been General Director of OOO Khevel since November 1, 2012.

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: Technical Director, Intermicro Joint Venture. 1992–1997: President, IBS. Since 1997: President, IBS Group. Anatoly Karachinsky develops strategies and investment policy for the IBS Group. He is actively involved in establishing a new information society in Russia and contributes a lot to the development of Russia’s economic IT potential. Member of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship attached to the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Government Commission on High Technology and Innovation. 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 Public Council attached to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. 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. Member of the Expert Council on Electronic Education attached to the Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly on Education and Science. Member of the Expert Council on Information Technology attached to the Minister of Information Technology and Communications of the Russian Federation. Member of the Supervisory Council of Moscow Exchange public company. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Luxoft, an NYSE traded public company. Married, with two sons.

Mr. MV Kotwal is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Mumbai. He started his career in L&T as a junior engineer in 1968. He was chosen into select group to execute orders for India's Nuclear Power Programme for manufacturing first Nuclear Power Reactor and critical reactor equipment. He heads Heavy Engineering activities in Oil & Gas, Fertilizer & Chemicals, Power Plants, special steels and heavy forgings, Nuclear, Defense & Aerospace. He also heads commercial and defence shipbuilding. Mr. Kotwal heads production facilities at Mumbai, Hazira, Talegoan, Baroda, Coimbatore, Bangalore, Vizag, Oman and state-of-the-art Shipyard in near Chennai. Under his leadership, L&T has emerged as a global player in the process plant equipment. He has been instrumental in establishing L&T as leading manufacturer of equipment for strategic sectors of nuclear, defense and aerospace. Today L&T is ranked amongst the top five fabrication companies in the world exporting high technology plant and equipment to over 40 countries including USA, UK, France, China and Middle East. Key positions: • Chairman of FICCI’s Committee on Defence. • Representative member from India for the Technical Advisory Group for ITER. • Chairman of Process Plant & Machinery Association of India (PPMAI) between 2005 and 2007. • "Business Leader of the Year 2009" by the Chemtech Foundation, Mumbai.

Sergey Kravchenko holds post of president of Boeing Russia/CIS since 2002, he is responsible for leading all Boeing business activities in Russia and the CIS. Kravchenko joined The Boeing Company in 1992. He directly participated in Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner program design, held leading positions in engineering departments in Seattle responsible for production and relations with suppliers and partners. In Russia, he led Boeing projects on participation in ISS, establishment of two Boeing joint ventures with Rostec /VSMPO, Boeing Design Center in Moscow, Boeing Flight Training Center in Skolkovo. Before Kravchenko joined Boeing in 1992, he worked as a professor and as the lead scientist of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also taught in Moscow and worked as a research consultant in Europe, the United States and Asia. Sergey Kravchenko is one of the leading specialists in Russia on modern management of large international projects and companies. Kravchenko is a professor and holds a doctorate degree of engineering science, earned in 1990. He holds over 20 patents in various areas of engineering and has published more than 50 research papers.

Appointed May 21, 2012 by order of the Russian President. Born: February 15, 1967 in Moscow. 1990: graduated with distinction from the Physics and Chemistry Department, Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in Physics of Metals. 2003: graduated from Moscow State Law Academy specializing in Jurisprudence. 1990–1992: full-time post-graduate studies at National University of Science and Technology (MIS&S) and defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation in physical and mathematical sciences, specialty 01.04.07 – Solid State Physics. 1992–2000: scientific associate and senior scientific associate at Research Laboratory of synthesis of MIS&S; associate professor in the department of theoretical physics at MIS&S. 1997: defended his Doctor of Science (Phys.Mat.) thesis in Solid State Physics. 1997–2000: Vice-Rector of MIS&S for scientific work. 2000–2004: Pro-rector for international co-operation; Professor, theoretical physics department, MIS&S. 2004–2005: Director, Department of State Scientific, Technical and Innovation Policy, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. 2005–2007: State Secretary – Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Since April 2007: Rector of the National University of Science and Technology (MIS&S). 2009: listed among the Top 100 management personnel reserve under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation. Author of 55 scientific works, including 49 printed abroad; a higher educational institution textbook Physics of Metals, 2006. His scientific works have covered: transport characteristics of metals; fluctuation phenomena in superconductors; physical characteristics of low-dimensional and amorphous metal systems. Doctor of Science (Phys.Mat.), Professor. Awarded the RAS Gold Medal for young scientists (2000), Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation 2011 in the sphere of education. Married with three children.

EDUCATION: A graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, he obtained a Master’s in Business Administration from Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA. Mr. Mazumder also undertook the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA. WORKING EXPERIENCE: He is presently the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of TIL Ltd., which manufactures India’s largest range of material handling equipment in technical collaborations with world leaders – Manitowoc Crane Group, USA; Hyster (a part of NACCO Materials Handling Group, USA); Astec Industries, USA; Paceco Corp, USA (a part of Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, Japan) and Mitsui Miike Machinery Co., Japan (a part of Mitsui Group). He is also the Executive Chairman of TIPL (Tractors India Pvt. Ltd.). The Company is a distributor for Caterpillar, USA, in India, Nepal and Bhutan for their earthmoving, construction, mining equipment and power systems. REPRESENTATION ON OTHER BODIES: 1. Mr. Mazumder is President-Designate of CII 2. Chairman of the CII National Committee on Integrity & Transparency in Governance 3. Chairman of CII Associations’ Council (ASCON) 4. He is past Chairman of CII – Eastern Region 5. Past President of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry 6. He is Director on the Board of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC). 7. Committee Member of The Agri-Horticultural Society of India 8. Mr. Mazumder has served as a Trustee of Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT).

Christian Morales is an Intel vice president and general manager of Intel Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for Intel product sales and marketing in the EMEA region. Morales has held senior international management roles in sales, channel operations and general management. He brings extensive experience in marketing and building brand awareness for new product segments, as well as a strong background in expanding and driving Intel's business into new and emerging markets. Prior to this role, Morales was Intel's vice president of the Sales and Marketing Group and co-general manager of Asia Pacific responsible for implementing Intel's strategies in Asia. He was also responsible for championing Intel's worldwide emerging markets strategy. Before that, he was general manager of Latin America and was instrumental in helping to establish a new regional headquarters and expand the company's regional presence throughout the continent. He joined the company in 1980 in Paris as an Intel field sales engineer and in 1983 became director for Spain and Portugal, and then moved back to Paris in senior positions to manage Western Europe channels and OEMs. He has been based in Paris, Madrid, Sao Paulo and Hong Kong. Morales graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the Electricity, Mechanics and Electronics Engineering School in Paris. In 1990, he completed the Young Managers Program in the MBA program at INSEAD.

He was born on 11 November 1980. In 2002 he graduated from the faculty of Information and Computer Engineering, Far East State Technical University. After his training, he worked at key management positions in large telecommunications companies such as Huawei, Alcatel, Dalsvyaz, Center Telecom and Start Telecom. In his previous position at Start Telecom, he was appointed Managing Director. He has been working at Angstrem since May 2014, and since December 2015 he has headed the organization.

Before being appointed Chief Financial & Legal Officer of Alcatel-Lucent, Jean Raby was a partner of the investment firm Aleph Capital Partners, LLP, based in London. Prior to that Jean enjoyed a 16-year career in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, being appointed a partner in 2004 and subsequently holding functions of co-CEO and then CEO of Investment Banking in France, Belgium and Luxembourg from 2006 to 2010, and CEO of Investment Banking in Russia and the CIS (including co-CEO of Goldman Sachs' Moscow office) from 2011 to the end of 2012. During his career at Goldman Sachs, Jean advised French and international clients on financing transactions in the international capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring programs. From 1989 to 1992 Jean was an associate attorney for Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, before moving to the law firm’s Paris office where he was based from 1992 to 1996. Born in Canada, Jean holds a LLB from Laval University (Quebec), a MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, and a LLM from Harvard Law School. Jean was admitted to the New York Bar in 1988.

Born on 16 September 1965 in Belgorod. Education: • Graduated with distinction in 1987 from the Moscow Aviation Institute, awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the October Revolution with a degree in organisation of mechanised processing of economic data. • Graduated in 1991 from the Business School of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Experience: • 1992–2001: Deputy Department Head, Department Head of AKB Eurofinance. • 2001–2007: Deputy Division Head, Division Head, Director of the Investment Transactions and Services Division of the Investment Block of ОАО Vneshtorgbank. • 2007–2011: Head of the Corporate Finance Department at the Directorate of Investment Banking, Director of the Industry Department of the State Corporation «The Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)». • Since July 2011: Vice-Chairman of the State Corporation «The Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)». • Since October 2013: Senior Vice-Chairman – Member of the Management Board of the State Corporation «The Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)». Awards: Awarded the medal of the order “For Services to Motherland” of the 2nd degree in recognition of his significant contribution to the development of the financial and banking system and many years of conscientious work.

Academician Vladimir E. Fortov was born on January 23, 1946. In 1968 he was graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with honors. In 1976 he received a doctoral degree, in 1982 was awarded the title of professor. In 1987 – was elected as corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR with specialization in thermal physics of the Division of physical-technical problems of power engineering. In 1991 he was elected as full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the divisions of Physical and technical problems of power engineering and General and technical chemistry. From 1993 to 1997 V.E.Fortov – Chairman of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research , from 1996 to 1998 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation – Minister of Science and Technology, from 1996 to 2001 – Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 2002 to 2013 – Head of the Department of energy, machinery, mechanics and control processes RAS, from 2013 - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From January 2007 academician V.E.Fortov is the Head of Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS. V.E. Fortov is a well known scientist actively involved in the research fields of power engineering, thermal physics, strong shock and detonation waves, plasma physics and physical mechanics. V.E. Fortov belongs to the group of scientists, whose work determines the modern state of physical and engineering science. Academician Fortov was one of the first people to apply strong shock waves to a generation of intense pulses of electric currents and to also investigate the physical and chemical properties of materials under extreme pressure and temperatures. He was the first to carry out the detailed measurement of the properties of perspective working media for magneto-hydrodynamic and magnetic flux compression electric generators. His has made an unique scientific input in an entirely new field of physics, the physics of dense plasmas. Academician Fortov has made key contributions to the understanding and expanding knowledge of the basic properties of matter under extreme conditions.