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Natalia Vodianova was born in Nizhny Novgorod. Her younger sister suffers from cerebral palsy and severe autism. Forbes has named Vodianova one of the world’s five most successful supermodels over the last 10 years. In 2003, she became the most highly-paid face ever of Calvin Klein. She has also worked with such brands as Louis Vuitton, Stella McCartney, L’Oreal, Chanel, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, etc. Since 2004, charity has been an integral part of Natalia Vodianova’s life and work. As a mother of four, her name is associated with motherhood, children and charity, as well as a career as a supermodel. Over the last 11 years, Natalia Vodianova’s Naked Heart Foundation has collected more than 30 million euros, built more than 137 inclusive parks and playgrounds throughout Russia and established a programme called “Every child deserves a family”, aimed at breaking Russia’s tradition of abandoning children with special needs.

Mary Davis is President & Managing Director of Special Olympics Europe Eurasia with responsibility for the development of 58 countries throughout the Region. Previous to this she was Chief Executive Officer of Special Olympics Ireland and was CEO of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games Organising Committee. In April 2006 she was appointed by the Taoiseach as Chair of the Taskforce on Active Citizenship. More recently she was appointed Chair of the Steering Group on Active Citizenship to oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the Taskforce. Mary has served on many boards and committees including her appointment to the Council of State by President Mary McAleese from 2004 to 2011. She stood as an independent candidate in the Irish Presidential Election in 2011.

Vladimir Yefanov was born on March 9, 1971 in the village of Adamovka, Orenburg region. 1988: finished Novosergievsk Secondary School, Orenburg region. 1989–1991: served in the Navy in the Polish People’s Republic. 2003: graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical University. 2006: founded the Miloserdie charitable foundation to help orphans and disabled children with serious diseases living in children’s homes and seriously ill children in need of expensive treatment. 2008: received the Glory to Russia order. 2009: awarded a letter of gratitude from the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. 2011: graduated from the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration, State and Municipal Administration Department.

Nicholas Colloff is the executive director of the Argidius Foundation, a part of Porticus, a family philanthropic advisory to a Dutch family of entrepreneurs. Argidius supports enterprise solutions to poverty in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, he was the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Oxfam GB, one of the world's largest humanitarian and aid organizations and the founder of two microfinance banks, one of which is in Russia.

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.

Ms. Elena Kokhanovskaya has been Head of the public relations department of Mobile Telesystems OJSC for over 7 years. Prior to MTS, Ms. Kokhanovskaya worked as a correspondent at Reuters Moscow, where she was covering telecommunications and metallurgy for the past three years. She graduated with a degree in Humanities - Philology from Novosibirsk State University. After graduation she worked as a regional correspondent of the Kommersant daily, headed the Banking and Finance department in a regional business weekly magazine and, later, in a regional business news agency - The Siberian Information Bureau. Recipient of Media Manager Russia 2012 award in Communications/Public Relations category. Since December 2012 RASO board member. In 2013 topped the list of country’s best PR and corporate communications directors in the Top 1000 Russian Managers by Kommersant and Russian Managers Association.

Maria Andreyevna Morozova has been heading the Elena & Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation from the day when it was created in December 2010. Since then, the Timchenko Foundation has become one of Russia’s leading private foundations implementing programs aimed at supporting active ageing, developing sports and culture, helping families and children. These strategic directions are designed to further comprehensive solutions of Russia’s social problems, with a special emphasis on its regions. The program portfolio of The Timchenko Foundation embraces over 100 projects, both all around Russia and abroad. Here are some of them: Society for All Ages National Conference, competitions like Active Generation, Cultural Mosaic of Small Towns and Villages, Dobryi Lyod [Good Ice], Right Family Course and others.As an active participant of expert panels and public forums that tackle topics matching the priorities of The Timchenko Foundation activities Maria Morozova has occupied the following positions: member of the Community Council with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of the Russian Federation (including Vice-Chairwoman of the Commission for Social Assistance and member of the Commission of Labor and Local Employment); head of «Starshye pokolenie» [Senior Citizen] section with the Russian Federation Government’s Community Council on Guardianship Issues in the Social Sphere; member of the Expert Board with the Agency of Strategic Initiatives; member of The Council of the Federation Committee on Social Innovation Development in Territorial Entities of the Russian Federation, and others. Ms. Morozova has been working in the non-commercial sector since 2006, completed with honors the MBA program at the California State University, graduated from the Russian Academy of Theater Arts (GITIS) in Moscow and received training at the CAF Foundation School.

Aylin Suntay is Head of Gazprombank Asset Management in Moscow and Luxembourg. She joined GPB after her prior role as Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Equities at Pictet Asset Management in Switzerland for 10 years between 2001-2011. Prior to Pictet, Aylin was Head of European Equities at First State Investments in London between 2009-2011, Emerging Markets Fund Manager at USA's Nicholas Applegate's GEM Fund between 2007-2009 and an Equities Analyst at Global Securities in Istanbul between 2003-2007. Aylin holds a Masters in Finance degree from London Business School and she completed her undergraduate studies at Istanbul University in economics.

Elena Tarasova graduated with distinction from St. Petersburg State Academy of Engineering and in economic management. She was Vice President of ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management). In 1996, she completed a training course in the US and the course New Management for Russia in Stockholm, and later studied leadership and management at Cambridge University. Elena Tarasova’s professional experience spans 17 years in women’s fashion retail. Ms. Tarasova started at Disegni and then served as head of franchising at OGGI. She came to the Melon Fashion Group in 2002 (ZARINA, befree, LOVE REPUBLIC), initially as befree director. Since 2011, she has been director of ZARINA. Elena Tarasova believes the fundamental principle of her work is a proper balance of creativity and economically justified processes. Her formula for success is effective teamwork by like-minded people.

Maria Chertok has been working with CAF Russia since 1997, since May 2005 as a Director. She has been involved in a number of exciting innovations in the Russian philanthropic sector, including development of community foundations model, corporate giving and private foundations. In 2009 Maria was named one of ten most influential philanthropy professionals in Russia by Russian Reporter magazine. Maria is a Board member of WINGS (World Initiative for Grant-makers Support), member of the Advisory Board of the Community Foundations Partnership, member of the Editorial Board of Alliance magazine and a co-organiser of the Olga Alexeeva Memorial Prize. She authored a number of articles and research materials on various aspects of philanthropy and civil society development in Russia and globally. Most recently Maria served as a guest editor of Alliance magazine issue on emerging market philanthropy and co-authored a report “Pathways to NGOs sustainability”. Before working with CAF Maria was a researcher at the Moscow office of the Ford Foundation. She graduated cum laude in sociology from the Moscow State University.

Andy works closely with members of Autism Speaks’ Board, Scientific Advisory Committee, senior staff and volunteer leadership to develop and implement the organization’s research program. He oversees the public health portfolio, which includes Autism Speaks' Global Autism Public Health Initiative, an international advocacy and development effort currently active in over 60 countries that integrates awareness, research, and service development. Andy and his team serve as technical advisor to ministries and other government agencies by facilitating multi-stakeholder collaboration and sourcing needed content expertise and other technical resources with the goal of delivering community-based feasible, cost-effective and sustainable solutions. Andy’s research background includes published studies in gene identification and characterization, virus-cell interaction, and cell-cycle regulation. He was instrumental in the cloning of a family of small GTPases involved in cell-cycle control and nuclear transport, and holds three patents on nucleic acids-based diagnostics and therapeutics. Prior to focusing on Autism Speaks’ public health/international development efforts, Andy oversaw the organization’s investments in genetics, environmental sciences, epidemiology and assistive technologies.

Born 1962 in Berne, Switzerland Studies of Economics and Journalism in Berne and Fribourg Postgraduate diploma in Business Management, MSc Human Resources Management Has worked as staff reporter, output editor, producer and member of the board in print and electronic media, among them European Business Channel EBC and Swiss Public TV SF. Joined ICRC in 1991 with an assignment as delegate to Kuwait, followed by a number of postings throughout the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. Has been appointed Head of Delegation for the ICRC in 1998 and since lead, in this order, ICRC operations in Somalia, Jordan, Syria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kenya, Tanzania, Djibouti, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Namibia. Head of Regional Delegation of the ICRC for the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova since October 2013. In his free time, can be found sailing offshore on any of the world's oceans.

Sergey Orlov is a Member of the Coordinating Council of All-Russian Public Organization Business Russia. He is also Chairman of Business Russia’s Committee for businesses’ social responsibilities, patronage of the arts and philanthropy. He is General Director and a member of the Board of Directors for RVM Capital, and head of the Board of Directors at Rosvagonmash. From 1993 until the present day, he has worked on the board of directors in large public companies, which are leaders in the spheres of finance, transport, engineering, construction and other industries within the Russian economy. He is a member of the Russian Independent Directors Association (IDA). He is included on the Board of Trustees for Financial Elite of Russia award. In 2006—2011 he worked as an advisor to the president of Trans Credit Bank, and was also Deputy Chairman on the bank’s board of directors. At the same time, he served on the board of Zheldorreforma, as well as on the boards of the largest subsidiary companies of the Russian Railways. Since 2003, he served in a working group to prepare industrial reforms for railway transportation for the Russian Ministry of Railways, and since 2005 was voluntary advisor to the president of the Russian Railways. In 1999—2006 he worked as a free-lance advisor and consulted for a range of Russian banks and companies on developing their businesses, as well as on individual projects linked to structuring businesses and working with problem assets. In 1992—1999 he worked at commercial banks in St Petersburg, where he in particular led the legal department as a deputy governor oversaw the work of the legal service, the department of problem assets, controlled project financing, business development and credit management. A patron and promoter of corporate and social responsibility at Business Russia, he conducts targeted social policies to provide charitable assistance and sponsored support to projects in the spheres of culture and education, on his own behalf and within the company. He was awarded the Person of the Year Prize, 2012.

Polina Filippova became CEO of Peri charitable foundation in 2015. Polina has Masters Degrees in Linguistics and Law. She started her career in the non-for profit sector in 1992 in the Rule of Law programme supported by USAID. Since then she has worked for a number of international organisations including IREX and the Urban Institute. For 11 years she was the Director for Programmes and Donors relations in CAF Russia, a branch of a prominent British charity, whose mission is to promote civilized and effective philanthropy in Russia. Her professional interests include a wide variety of subjects ranging from assistance to vulnerable groups, development of educational and cultural programmes. Polina sits on the Boards of several Russian and International NGOs.