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Viatcheslav has 15 years of investment and financial experience with leading international institutions. During the global crisis Viatcheslav was the Advisor to the Minister of Economic Development of Russia focusing on diversification and growth initiatives, including the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Viatcheslav moved to Russia from Citigroup in New York where he was Managing Director. Prior to Citi he was Partner at Old Lane, a hedge fund sold to Citi, where he ran $1bn in global investments focused on natural resources and growing consumer. He transitioned from Third Point, a New York hedge fund, where he was Portfolio Manager, named Partner, investing $500mn in emerging markets. Earlier he was Investment Analyst at Relational Investors in San Diego and at Everest Capital in Miami. Before moving to the US he worked at the Rothschild group and AXA in Paris. Viatcheslav holds a Stanford MBA, MA with high honors in International Economics from the State Management University, and BS from the American University of Paris. He is a CFA charterholder.

Date of birth: 24 January 1962 Nationality: Polish Education:MA in Sociology at Warsaw University Knowledge of languages:English – very good Russian – very good Organization represented:Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) Present employment: President of the Polish Social Insurance Institution Work experience: Worked in administration, banking, media, consulting, he also held high governmental functions. -President of Polish Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) (October 2009 – present) -Vice-President of Postal Bank (February 2009 – September 2009) -Minister in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (November 2007 – January 2009) -Vice-President of Postal Bank (January 2006 – October 2007) -Deputy Secretary of State and Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister (March 1999 - 2001) -Director of the Department of the Polish Investment Bank (1995-1997) -Executive positions in the Parliament offices, including Director of Cabinet of the Head of the Chancellery of the Parliament -In the 90`s he held managerial positions in the Polish TV Positions in International Social Security Association ISSA -Chairman of ISSA Control Committee -Chairman of ISSA European Network

Born on 4 October 1964 in Moscow. 1986: graduated from Moscow Institute of Finance as an economist. 1986: started working as an economist in the Office of financing Social Security of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1987: economist for the Office of Financing Health and Welfare of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1988: worked as senior economist in Division of funding for Social Development the Ministry of Finance. 1988 – 1989: served in the Soviet Army.1989: held various posts in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.1994: appointed Deputy Head of the General Office of the Federal Treasury, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.July 1999 - July 2008: worked for the Government of the Russian Federation.17 July 2008: appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Order of Honour with the title of “Honoured economist of the RF”. Married with a daughter and a son.

Steven A. Kandarian is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a leading provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs to 90 million customers worldwide. He became president and CEO on May 1, 2011 and chairman of the board on January 1, 2012. Kandarian joined MetLife in April 2005 as executive vice president and chief investment officer. He oversaw MetLife’s $450 billion general account portfolio. Since 2007, he has also overseen enterprise-wide strategy. His efforts helped position MetLife to emerge from the 2008 credit crisis with the financial strength to expand globally. From 2001 to 2004, Kandarian was executive director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He earned his B.A. from Clark University, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Monika Queisser is also one of the leading international experts in pension system analysis and pension reform. She has been working with governments in OECD countries advising them on pension system design and pension reform strategies since 1999. In 2007-8, she worked as an adviser to the OECD Secretary-General. Prior to joining the OECD Ms. Queisser worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the pensions and insurance group in the Financial Sector Development Department. She worked with and traveled extensively to countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe to consult governments on pension and insurance matters. Her first employment was with the German ifo institute for economic research in Munich. Her professional experience also includes employment as a journalist at daily newspapers and broadcasting in Germany. Ms. Queisser holds two masters’ degrees (in economics and political science) and a doctorate in economic policy from the University of Munich. She is a German/American national.

Previously held positions: July 2012 – present time: Deputy Finance Minister September 2010 – July 2012: Head of Macroeconomy Analysis at VTB Capital 2004-2010: Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist, Renaissance Capital. 2001-2004: Chief Economist, Renaissance Capital. 1998-2001: Senior Sovereign Strategist, Emerging Markets Research, Fixed Income Department, BNP Paribas London 1995-1996: Senior Economist, Department for Foreign Exchange Regulations and Controls, Central Bank of the Russian Federation 2011: Ranked 2nd for Russian macroeconomy in Thomson Reuters Extel Survey 2011 and 3rd in “Economics” category in Institutional Investor 2011 All-Russia investor survey. 2004-2009: Ranked best analyst in at least one fixed income category in each of the Institutional Investor All-Russia Research Surveys. 2006: Ranked Top 3 economist in Emerging Europe in the Institutional Investor Emerging EMEA Research Team Report. Alexey graduated with honours (Beta Gamma Sigma) and received Master of Business Administration from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, USA. He graduated with honours from the State Academy of Management, Moscow, Russia, in International Economics.

Michal Rutkowski is a newly appointed Country Director for the Russian Federation. He is also a former Director of the Office for Social Security Reform in the Government of Poland (1996-97) and a co-author of the design of the new Polish pension system. From 1998-2004, back in the World Bank, as Sector Manager for social protection, he led a team of professionals working on pensions, labor market and social assistance reforms in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as in Turkey. In 2004 he moved to human development Sector Director position in the Middle East and North Africa Region, and in 2008 to an equivalent position in the South Asia Region. Mr. Rutkowski studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (Ph.D. in economics, 1987) and the London School of Economics (post-graduate studies). Before joining the World Bank in 1990, he was an Associate Professor teaching Economics and doing research work in Labor Economics, Comparative Economics, and Macroeconomics in the Institute for Economic Policy of the Warsaw School of Economics (1987-88).

2013: creation of his own company “THOMAS VENDÔME INVESTMENT”: private Equity, Real Estate Investments and advisory especially for European and Russian companies. 1998 – 2013: LAZARD partner. Former representative of French President Nicolas Sarkozy – French – Russian economic cooperation. March 2012: report on the creation of an economic Euro – Russian area. Appointed by the French Ministry of the Economy to follow cross-boarder investments and programme of privatizations between France and Russia within C.E.F.I.C. (Conseil Economique, Financier, Industriel et Commercial). Political career. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: one of the leaders in Republican Party. Member of Finance Committee : spokesman on the Economy and the Budget, Special Finance Committee reporter. Author of the Thomas Law (March 1997) for creating pension funds in France. The Euro : Representant of the Parliament at the Euro Committee. Privatisations: in 1998, as a Member of the Parliament, he wrote a book “Les privatisations”. Member of the International Advisory Board of RUSAL, member of the board of RECYLEX Group. Advisor of SANOFI. Senior Advisor of the president of AMUNDI. Member of the “Cercle de l’Union Interalliée”. Born in 1957 in Vosges (France).