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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. 1973 to 1986: Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Youth Organization of the Azerbaijani. 1986 to 1991: Information Department Chief and Director of the Press center at the Committee of Youth Organization of the USSR. 1991 to 1995: General Director of the «Infomol» Association for Cooperation in Information. 1995 to 1998: Vice-President of the «ANKOM-TASS» International Analytic Agency. 1998 to 1999: Chief of the ITAR-TASS Department for International Cooperation. January 1999 to October 2000: Deputy Director-General of ITAR-TASS. October 2000: Appointed First Deputy Director-General of ITAR-TASS by Russian President Vladimir V.Putin. Since 1999: Executive Secretary of the World Association of the Russian Press (WARP). Since May 2000: Secretary-General of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA). Since September 2002: Vice-President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA). Member of the Board of the «Mediasoyuz» - Russian Media Organization; Member of the Board of the Moscow Union of journalists; Member of the International Academy of Information; Professor, Doctor of Political Science; Merited Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.

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 and overseas, across media, business and government. Clive was previously Chief Executive of the Australian Associated Press (AAP). With over 30 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, he is Chairman of the motoring business, Baize Group, and the current President of the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA).

Date and Place of Birth: September 2, 1980, Yerevan. Education: 1996-2000, Yerevan State University, Foreign Relations Department, Bachelor’s Degree. 2000-2002, Yerevan State University, Foreign Relations Department, Master’s Degree. 2002-2005, Post-graduate study at RA NAS Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, defended a thesis entitled “The Armenian genocide factor in Armenian-Turkish relations in 1991-2005”. Career Experience: 2001, RA Ministry of Urban Development, First Degree Specialist. 2001-2003, RA National Statistics Service, Head of Unit, Chief Specialist. 2003-2005, RA NAS Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, junior research worker, senior research worker. 2005, RA Ministry for Foreign Relations, Aide. 2005-2006, RA NAS Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, Deputy Director for Scientific Affairs. 2006-2009, RA History Institute, senior research worker. 2007-2008, “Forum” monthly, editor-in-chief. 2008-2009, Aide to the President of Armenia. 2009-2011 Assistant to RA Prime Minister. 2011-2012 - Press Secretary to the Prime Minister of Armenia. As of October 2011 – Director General of «ARMENPRESS». As of May 25, 2012 - Adviser to RA Prime Minister. Other Details: Candidate of Historical Sciences. Fridjoff Nansen Medal awarded in 2009. Author of 3 monographs, about 20 scientific papers and over 200 publications.

Paul J. Ingrassia, Managing editor of Reuters, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has written extensively about the auto industry for nearly 30 years. His third and latest book, published by Simon and Schuster in May 2012, is Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. It was cited by Bloomberg news and by the American Library Association as one of the most notable books of 2012. His previous book (Random House, January 2010) Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry’s Road from Glory to Disaster, chronicled the bankruptcies and bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler. It currently is being made into a documentary film. Mr. Ingrassia spent 31 years at The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones, as a reporter, editor and executive before departing in 2007. As the Journal's Detroit bureau chief from 1985 to 1994, Mr. Ingrassia won a Pulitzer Prize -- along with his deputy, Joseph B. White -- in 1993 for coverage of General Motors. The two also won a Loeb Award that year. Mr. Ingrassia’s broadcast appearances include Meet the Press, CNBC, National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, ABC’ 20/20, the PBS Newshour and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. At Reuters, Mr. Ingrassia is based in London and directs more than 2,000 journalists -- reporters, editors and videographers -- in 200 bureaus worldwide. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Daily Illini. He received his master’s degree, also in journalism, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is a native of Laurel, Mississippi.

Alexander (Sandy) MacIntyre, Director of Global Video for Associated Press, has more than 35 years’ experience in journalism, starting in newspapers in his native Scotland before becoming a television news editor on national and international TV in the UK. He joined AP in 1994 and now runs its global video operation which serves 700 broadcasters and digital publishers worldwide. MacIntyre covered the fall of Communism in eastern Europe, the war in the Balkans as well as conflict in the Middle East. He has also covered politics in the UK and the US as well as major sporting events including 5 Olympic games and 6 Word Cups. In recent years he was one of the architects of transforming the AP’s business from a primarily newspaper cooperative to a digital multimedia powerhouse. A regular attendee at the World Economic Forum in Davos, MacIntyre is Columbia University School of Journalism Sulzberger fellow.

Sergey Mikhailov has been Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Cherkizovo Group since 2006. Mr. Mikhailov led Cherkizovo Group during its successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, making the Group the first Russian agricultural company listed on the LSE. Since 2006, Cherkizovo has been expanding rapidly and developing its business in Russia and it is now the country’s largest vertically integrated agricultural company and meat producer. In 2001, Mr. Mikhailov was Marketing Director of Cherkizovo Meat Processing Plant. He was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the plant in 2002 and, a year later, he became its Chief Executive Officer.In 1998, he founded the telecommunications company, aTelo, Inc., in the United States and was its CEO until 2001. In 1998, he trained as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs before moving to Morgan Stanley in 1999. He graduated from Georgetown University (Washington DC) in 2000 with a degree in Finance and Economics.

Joined Kyodo News in 1980 after graduation from Hitotsubashi University with an International Law degree. Roving Correspondent in charge of Middle East and Russian Affairs 1990-91. Tehran Bureau Chief 1991-92. New York Correspondent 1993-96. Washington Correspondent 1997-2001. Washington Bureau Chief 2005-2009. Senior Feature Writer and Editorial Writer 2010-2013. Commentator, TBS News Bird, Tokyo Broadcasting Service. Planning Committee Member, Japan National Press Club. Special fellow at Waseda University Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies. Visiting fellow at Chuou University Institute for policy and cultural studies. Fellow at Hosei University Okinawa Cultural Studies International Committee Member, National Press Club in Washington DC 2005-09. Book Publications: “Hikaku No Sentaku” (Shaping of Japan’s non-nuclear policy), Iwanami Syoten, Tokyo, 2005. “Samayoeru Nihon” (Drifting Japan), Seisansei Syuppan, Tokyo, 2008. “Amerika wa naze kawarerunoka” (Why US can change? - a book on 2008 US presidential election), Chikuma Shobou, Tokyo, 2009. "Sekaiga nihonno kotowo kangaeteiru" (The World is watching Japan - a book on interviews with world intellectuals on earthquake-tsunami-nuclear accidents on March 11), Taro Jirou sya, Tokyo 2012. "Shin Tairiku Shugi"(The New Continentalism), Ushio Syuppan, Tokyo 2013. Asia in Washington, Chuou Kouron Shinsha, Tokyo 2014 (translation).

Giuseppe Cerbone is Managing Director and General Manager of ANSA, Italy's leading News Agency and the fourth-largest in the world. After graduating in Computer Science in Italy he obtained a PhD in the same subject at Oregon State University in the United States where he subsequently taught for four years, specialising in artificial intelligence. He also worked with NASA research centers and NeXT Computer. After returning to Italy in 1992 he worked in multi-media for companies in the IRI-Stet Group before moving to the publishing sector where, among other posts, he was Managing Director and General Manager of the Il Sole 24 Ore Group. Throughout his career he has been committed to researching and spreading technological know-how linked to the knowledge economy. He has been Vice President of the Italian Institute of Technology and is at present Vice President of Punto IT.