Programme

Charles Robertson, a leading emerging markets specialist, is Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist and Head of the Firm’s Macro-strategy Unit. Mr. Robertson covers the global economic themes having the greatest impact on emerging markets. Over the past decade, the scope of Mr. Robertson’s work has covered, among other topics: quantifying political risk in emerging markets; how the retirement age rising to 67 reflects deep-rooted problems in the West and great opportunities in emerging markets; the revolutionary nature of growth in countries with non-democratic governments; the fact that Africa’s economies are now returning some of the highest growth rates on Earth, and how this trend is set to play out; the impact of terrorism and natural disasters on economies; the effects of falling agricultural stocks on food prices and inflation; and how emerging-markets banks may have the best growth potential over the coming years. Mr. Robertson is the lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution (www.fastestbillion.com), published in October 2012. Mr. Robertson was ranked the number-one economics and macro analyst for emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the Extel survey in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In addition, the team he led was ranked the best macro team in Extel’s 2010 survey of equity investors. Another of Charlie’s teams took first place for SSA coverage in the institutional investor survey for 2012.

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.

Esko Mustamäki graduated from Helsinki University of Technology in 1984 with MSc in Engineering and Shipbuilding and he has held several management level positions within the maritime sector. He was employed by Wärtsilä Marine in 1980 and after that he has been employed by F-G Shipping Inc., Finnlines Plc, Finstaship and SET-Group Ltd. From April 2011 Mr Mustamäki has worked as Managing Director for Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, a shipyard founded in 2010 that specializes in building icebreakers and other Arctic offshore and special vessels. Education & qualifications: 1975-1984 Helsinki University of Technology, Master of Science -Engineering, Shipbuilding (Industrial Engineering and Management). Career summary: 1980 - 1989 Wärtsilä Marine Inc. Project Manager. 1990 - 2000 FG-Shipping Oy Ab: Project Manager, New Building; Manager, New Building; Vice President, Development; CEO. 2001 – 2004 Finnlines Plc, Vice President, Ship Management. 2004 – 2008 Shipping Enterprise Finstaship, CEO. 2009 – 2011 SET-Group Ltd. Senior Project Advisor. 2011 – Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. Managing Director.

Родился 26 апреля 1965 в г. Лиепая, Латвийская ССР. Born April 26, 1965 in Liepaya, Latvia. 1987 graduated Makarov Academy in Leningrad. Between 1987 and 1991 worked at Baltic Shipping Company. Between 1991 and 1994 - deputy CEO of Infotek Baltika As of 1994 – director of Infotek Baltika Mr. Olersky has been awarded the medal “Commemoration of 300 year anniversary of St Petersburg” and medal “For excellence in marine activity”. July 30, 2009 appointed deputy minister of transportation of Russian Federation.

EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS: Admiral O.S. Makarov Leningrad Higher Maritime Engineering School, navigation engineer (1974) Sea captain diploma (1987) WORK EXPERIENCE: 1975–2004 Fourth assistant to captain – nuclear powered ice breaker captain (1995), Murmansk Sea Shipping Company, 2004–2011 Head of Shipping Maintenance Division, Federal Agency of Sea and River Transport 2011–2013 Deputy Head of Shipping Safety Department, OAO Sovkomflot. April 2013–present Head, FGKU Northern Sea Route Administration.

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.

Mr Sergey Ottovich Frank was born on 13 August 1960 in Novosibirsk. In 1983 Mr Frank graduated with honours from the Admiral G.I Nevelskoy Maritime State University in Vladivostok, specialising in ship navigation on sea routes. In 1995 he completed a law degree at the Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok. In 2007 he defended his PhD dissertation in technical sciences. 1984-1989 – Deputy director of the Admiral G.I Nevelskoy Maritime State University. 1989-1995 – Head of the external economic relations department, Deputy head of finance and economics, and deputy general director at the Far Eastern Shipping Company. 1995-1996 – Deputy director of the department for maritime transport at the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. 1996-1998 – Deputy, then First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. 1998-2004 – Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. Since October 2004 – President and Chief Executive Officer of PAO Sovcomflot. Simultaneously from 2014 – Chairman of the Board of AO United Shipbuilding Corporation; Member of the presidium at the Maritime Board under the Government of the Russian Federation ; Member of the State Committee for issues of development of the Arctic; Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; deputy head of the Union’s committee for transport and transport infrastructure; Head of the Council at the Russian Chamber of Shipping. Head of the supervisory board and The Honourable President of the Admiral G.I Nevelskoy Maritime State University; Member of the supervisory board of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the supervisory board of the Russian Geographic Society.

Born on July 15, 1979 in Moscow. Education: Graduated from the Military University attached to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2001. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Business in 2006. Fluent in English, Greek and French. Work experience: 1996–2005: Military service. 2006–2008: Worked in various positions at the Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation. February–August 2008: Worked in various positions at the Department of International Cooperation, Staff of the Government of the Russian Federation. 2008–2010: Aide to the Minister, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. 2010–2011: Deputy Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. 2011–2013: Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. January–March 2013: Director of the Department for the Coordination of State Industry Programs, Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. March–September 2013: Aide to the Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. September–December 2013: Director of the Department of the Minister’s Affairs, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. 2014–November 2014: Director of the Department for Interaction with Customs Union Authorities and Economic Cooperation with CIS Countries, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. November 2014 to present: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

In 1963 he graduated from the S.O. Makarov Leningrad Higher School of Marine Engineering with a degree in Oceanology. 1963–1969: Worked at the Tiksi Arctic Research Laboratory. 1969–1974: Headed the North Pole 19 and North Pole 22 drift ice-based research stations and the Bellingshausen research station. 1974–1979: Head of the Amderma Territorial Hydrometeorology Division. 1979–1986: Head of the Personnel and Education Institutions Division of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. 1986–1992: Deputy Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control. In 1985 he was awarded with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for rescuing the Mikhail Somov ship that was stuck in ice. In 1987 he led a research expedition on-board the Sibir nuclear-powered icebreaker. 1989–1990: Organized the International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition. In 1991 he led the Airborne Expedition to the Antarctic. In 2003 he initiated the establishment of the North Pole 32 drift ice-based research station. In 2008 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the 1st–5th convocations. 2011–2014: member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, representing the Tula Region. Since 2014: Member of the Board of Directors, Rosneft.