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With two decades of journalism under his belt at Bloomberg Television and CNN, Ryan Chilcote's been an eyewitness to many of the biggest stories of our time. Thanks to his unique background spanning general and financial news, Chilcote is as at home interviewing world leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum in Davos as he is reporting from the world's front lines. Ryan has received several awards for his work. Among them: an Emmy nomination for Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast from the National Academy for Television Arts & Sciences, a New York Film Festival World Medal, a Clarion Award, and a nomination at the Prix Bayeux Competition for War Correspondents. Chilcote's relentless reporting has taken him from the United States throughout the whole of Europe, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, South Africa, Sudan, Kenya and Iceland. After graduating from the University of California in 1995, Chilcote moved to Russia where he worked for CNN and traveled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union. In 2007, he moved to the United Kingdom to join Bloomberg.

Ben joined Shell in 1983, after graduating with a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Ben’s career in Shell spans both Upstream and Downstream activities. He has held a number of operational and commercial roles, including some 10 years in the LNG business, and a variety of positions in Downstream. In January 2005, Ben became Vice President, Manufacturing Excellence, based in Houston, USA. In this role he was responsible for standards in operational excellence and high-performance initiatives in refining and chemicals manufacturing. In December 2006, he was appointed Executive Vice President, Chemicals, based in London, UK. During his tenure in the role, Ben was appointed to the boards of a number of leading industry associations including the International Council of Chemicals Associations and the European Chemical Industry Council. From January to October 2013, Ben was Downstream Director and had regional responsibility for Europe and Turkey. Since January 2013, he has been a member of Shell’s Executive Committee. Ben, a Dutch citizen is married to Stacey and has three daughters and a son. He enjoys reading, running and travelling with his family.

Born in 1967. After leaving school in 1985 he entered the Lenin’s Shipbuilding Institute. Subsequently, from 1996 to 1998, Dyukov took up the post of Financial Manager and Chief Executive director of CJSC St-Petersburg Oil Terminal. In 1998 he was economics director, and during 1999 acted as chief director, of JSC St-Petersburg SeaPort. In 2000 he resumed his duties in JSC St-Petersburg Oil Terminal as Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2001 he took an IMISP MBA degree. In February 2003 he was appointed President of JSC AK SIBUR. Since July 2005 he has also been President of JSC AKS Holding. In November 2005 he ceased working as the President of JSC AK SIBUR. He is President of OJSC AKS Holding, and since December 2005, he has also been President of JSC SIBUR Holding. Since November 2006 he has been Chairman of Board of Directors of JSC SIBUR Holding. From 2011 — Deputy Chairman of Board of Directors of JSC SIBUR Holding. On 23 November 2006 he was appointed Acting President of JSC Gazprom Neft’. On 30 December 2006 he was elected President of JSC Gazprom Neft’ by the ordinary general meeting of shareholders.

Mario Mehren is the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Wintershall. From 2011 until assuming this role in 2015 he was a member of the Board with responsibility for the Russia board department and for exploration and production in Russia, North Africa and South America. He first joined Wintershall as the Head of Finance and Information Management in 2006. Prior to Wintershall Mr. Mehren worked at BASF from 1998 to 2006, where he was successively a specialist adviser in the Corporate Finance department; Head of Finance and Accounting for BASF Schwarzheide GmbH; and Managing Director of Finance and Administration for BASF Chile S.A. Mr. Mehren holds a degree in Business Administration from Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Wintershall, based in Kassel, Germany, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BASF in Ludwigshafen. The company has been active in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas for over 75 years. Wintershall focuses on selected core regions, where the company has built up a high level of regional and technological expertise. These are Europe, North Africa, South America, as well as Russia and the Middle East. Today the company is Germany's largest producer of crude oil and natural gas.

Mr Alexander Novak, born August 23rd , 1971 in Donetsk region of Ukranian SSR, is currently serving as Russia's Minister of Energy. From 2000 to 2002 he was Deputy Mayor of Norilsk on financial and economic issues and First Deputy Mayor of Norilsk. In 2002-2007 was Vice Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Head of the Main Financial Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administration. From July 2007 to September 2008 he was the First Vice Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai and from July to September 2008 he was also the Chairman of the government of Krasnoyarsk Krai. From September 2008 he was the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and from October 2008, a member of the board of the Ministry of Finance of Russia. He is a graduated from the Norilsk Industrial Institute and the Moscow Lomonosov State University.

Grigory has brought more than 19 years of operational experience in oil and gas sector. In January 2015, he established VYGON Consulting company, which is entirely based on providing strategic consulting for industrial entities, analytical support for the public authorities, conducting research in the energy sector. From 2011 to 2014, Grigory was the director of Energy Center in Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. In 2008, before the foundation of the Centre, he headed the Department of Economy and Finance in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, where he was engaged in various issues, including economic incentivizing of oil and gas sector. In 2006-2008, he was the chief economist in TNK-BP, being responsible for strategic planning and analytical support to interact with public authorities. Before joining TNK-BP, he worked as an independent consultant and director in the Corporate Finance Department of the Institute of Financial Studies. In 1996, Grigory graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 2000 – received a PhD degree in the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of RAS. The key field of interest – oil and gas industry strategy and economic development, improvement of state regulation in terms of taxation and subsoil management. During the past 10 years, he has been actively involved in elaboration of strategic sectoral documents and regulations on economic stimulation of Russian oil and gas sector.

A leader of McKinsey’s Eastern European Petroleum practice and a co-leader of McKinsey’s Global Oil & Gas Practice. Leads projects on strategy development, organization modeling, operations improvement, and capital productivity improvement. Active in work focused on state regulation. A member of McKinsey’s Moscow office since 2001. George serves clients in the oil and gas, mining, and metallurgy sectors. Focuses on strategy development, organizational transformation, operations improvement, procurement system enhancement, and improvement of major CapEx project implementation systems for Russian and international private and public companies in these sectors. Education: Emory University (USA), MBA; Tbilisi State Medical University.

Peter Parry has over thirty years of extensive experience in the energy industry. He joined Bain & Company in 2008, where he is a Partner and the Global Head of the Oil and Gas Practice. Assignments prior to Bain include: Managing Director, Arthur D Little UK, consulting and R&D business; Manager, Energy Corporate Finance team, UK Merchant Bank; Technical Specialist, Scott Pickford and Associates; Head, Global Upstream Energy Practice, Booz Allen Hamilton. Peter Parry’s expertise spans strategy development, technology management, operations and commercial negotiation, working with the energy industry’s leading players in the oil majors and national oil companies, developing and implementing growth strategies. He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. He holds a BA in Economics and Geography from Lancaster University.