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Managing Partner and General Director of Finjecto, co-founder of Finjecto-startup, media expert and publicist. Has managed Finjecto since 2011. Khrekov worked as head of business development in the CIS at the Taiwanese company Dayton and a specialist in foreign cooperation at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. From 1998 to 2009, he worked in the media. He was a television reporter and commentator at the NTV information service as well as the editorial programmes Itogi and Namedni. He later worked as an editor-in-chief, head and author of the programmes as well as deputy director of the Prime NTV Directorate. He is the author of hundreds of reports and several documentaries, including King Louis (NTV), Tips for Love (NTV) and Port Arthur: We Returned (Russia-1). Since 2009, he has worked as director of business development in Russia at Coast Pacific Limited (Hong Kong). Since 2011, he has worked at Finjecto. Education – Orientalist, master’s degree, graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Moscow State University. In 2010, he obtained an MBA in strategic management. Anton Khrekov is a business coach in the areas Media-Oriented Companies (Media Navigation), Presentation Skills, Public Speaking Skills and Smart Company PR as well as the author of the Doing Business with China seminar. He has experience as a business coach at dozens of companies, including Exxon Neftegas Limited, Tatmedia, IBS, Samruk-Kazyna and many more. He works on bringing multi-media formats to business forums and also as a moderator. He is the author of the book Spy War King. Viktor Louis – Kremlin Special Agent as well as courses for journalists. He speaks English (fluently), Chinese and French (basic conversational) as well as Italian (basic knowledge).

Sir Paul is the Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc and a Director of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, of Tempur-Sealy International Inc of Kentucky and of Abraaj Capital of Dubai. He is an Alderman of the City of London, the President of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Association of MBAs and Chairman of the British-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, the Enterprise Education Trust and St Dunstan’s College. He is a Member of the Council of the Crown Agents and the President of Togo’s Investment Advisory Council and a Special Adviser at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House. He has honorary degrees from RANEPA, Plekhanov, Sinerghia, Cambridge, Westminster and City universities. Educated at Cambridge University and at the Wharton Business School, Sir Paul worked for Cadbury Schweppes and then led the buyout of their food interests to form Premier Brands. He was subsequently Chairman of Food from Britain, Director General of the Conservative Party and a Ministerial Adviser at the Cabinet Office. He has more recently been President of the Chartered Management Institute (2004-5), Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts (2003-6), Chairman of Teachers TV (2005-8), Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association in New York (2001-12) and a Director of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg (2003-12) and of ENRC plc (2007-13). He was the key benefactor of the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

Daphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-founder and co-CEO of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that works with the best universities to connect anyone around the world with the best education, for free. Coursera is the leading MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platform, and has partnered with dozens of the world’s top universities to offer hundreds of courses in a broad range of disciplines to over 3.5 million students, spanning every country in the world. She is the recipient of many awards, which include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACM/Infosys award, and membership in the US National Academy of Engineering. She is also an award winning teacher, who pioneered in her Stanford class many of the ideas that underlie the Coursera user experience. She received her BSc and MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her PhD from Stanford in 1994.

Dean Sunil Kumar is the George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management. Dean Kumar began his appointment as dean and joined the Booth faculty on January 1, 2011. His research interests include performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. He previously spent 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he also served as senior associate dean, overseeing the school's MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior. Born in India, Kumar received a Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vladimir Mau is Doctor of Economics, Professor, PhD, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation. Born on 29 December 1959 in Moscow, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of National Economy in 1981. Since 1991 he participated in the development and implementation of economic reforms in Russia, including working as Advisor to the Chairman of the Russian Government from 1992-1993. From 1997-2002 Mau was the Head of the Working Center for Economic Reforms of the Russian Government. In 2002, he became the Rector of the Academy of National Economy of the Russian Government, and in 2010 the Rector of the newly formed the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Rector Mau is a renowned expert in the field of economic theory, the history of economic thought and national economy. He is the author of 25 monographs, books and textbooks published in Russia and the UK, as well as more than 600 other works. The main results of his research focus on economic history and the history of economic thought in Russia and the USSR; the theory and history of economic policy; economic transformation and economic reforms. Rector Mau is a member of Economic Council of the President of Russian Federation. He is and also a chairman of the Expert Board under the Government Commission for Economic Development and Integration, and member of several governmental commissions and committees.

Brent Wilton has overall responsibility for the management of the IOE Secretariat in its work to support the global business community, in the International Labour Organization, and in other international forums, such as the G20 and the World Economic Forum (WEF). A lawyer by profession, Brent’s career began in private legal practice before joining the Employers’ Association in New Zealand. For the next thirteen years he was involved in national, regional and enterprise-based bargaining and represented employers in a variety of legal matters, both in mediation and in the Labour Court, and addressed a wide range of industrial relations and human rights issues across industries and sectors in New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. After leaving the Auckland Employers in 1999 as Manager of Legal and Advocacy Services, Brent joined the IOE as Senior Adviser, becoming Deputy Secretary-General in 2003. He was appointed Acting Secretary-General in mid-November 2011 and Secretary-General on 26 May 2012. Brent Wilton is Co-chair of the B20 Task Force on Job Creation, Employment and Investment in Human Capital.

Born on July 17, 1949, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). 1971 – graduated from Zhdanov Leningrad State University; Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. 1971-1991 – junior researcher, laboratory head, deputy director for research, leading researcher at the Ioffe Physical Technical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Leningrad. 1991-1993 – Vice President of Advanced Technology Centre, St Petersburg. 1994-2001 – Director of Regional Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development, St Petersburg. From 2000 – Chairman of the Academic Council of the Centre for Strategic Research North-West Foundation. 2001-2002 – Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From June 2002 – First Deputy Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. From December 2003 – Acting Minister of Industry, Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. March 9, 2004 – appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Since May 21, 2012 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. State award – Honorary Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation.

As corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Sector organization, Laura Ipsen leads a team of more than 1,900 sales and marketing professionals serving government, education, and non-privatized healthcare customers in more than 100 countries. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ipsen served as senior vice president and general manager of Connected Energy Networks at Cisco, where she led the effort to use the network as the platform to transform how the world manages its energy, building smart grid solutions for Utilities globally. Previously, Ipsen established and managed Cisco's Global Policy and Government Affairs division for 13 years and was responsible for developing Cisco's public policy agenda and advancing governmental policies. Ipsen holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Affairs at University of Virginia and studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Jordan. She is also a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley Chapter.

<p> Born in Moscow, Russia on 27 August 1979.Graduated from the State University “Higher School of Economics”, Diploma in Economy and Business Administration.Since 1995 in Healthcare and Pharmaceutics.R-Pharm Founder. President of All-Russia Business Association “Delovaya Rossiya” (“Business Russia”), actively participating in the improvement of investment climate in the Russian Federation and the establishment of the regional investment standard.Member of the Economic Council under the President of the Russian Federation.Member of the Presidential Council for Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy.Member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Head of Commission on Investment Climate.Representative (public ombudsman) of the Commissioner of the Presidential Council on the protection of the rights of entrepreneurs on issues related to the protection of the rights of foreign investors.Board-member and Co-chairman of Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on pharmaceutical and medical industry.Co-Chairman of the National Rating CommitteeMember of the Public Council under the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation (pharmaceutical, medical equipment and technologies).Member of the Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives". </p>

Dmitry Peskov was born in Voronezh in 1975. In 1998 graduated from Voronezh State University. In 1999 received an MA in political science from the University of Manchester. Since 2000 worked at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, was responsible for university development strategy. Left the university at the position of the Innovations Director, Deputy Vice-President on science. In 2008 created Metaver, a company that designs new education forms on the suture of education and venture economics. In 2009 became head of Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy. In 2011 became the Director on Young Professionals Direction at Agency for Strategic Initiatives. Member-Expert Council of Government of Russia. Member of the board of trustees of the agency on professional development WorldSkills Russia. Member of the council of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on development of young, innovative and small entrepreneurial activity. Head of the work group on Best Professional Practices Support at the Presidential Professional Qualifications Council. Member of the commission on 2020 Innovation Strategy implementation. He is on the Board of Directors at Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC, RVK PSC, boards of trustees for Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and Support Foundation for Visually and Hearing Impaired. Holds various state awards, including the Order ”For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd Degree.

In 1957 he graduated from the Odessa Institute of Civil Construction, and in 1963 from the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Economics. In 1968 he defended his thesis for the degree of the Candidate of Science. In 1976 - Doctor of Economics, and since 1979 - Professor. In 1989 Evgeniy Yasin led a Department on Economic Reform in the State Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers. He was one of the key authors of a number of programmes of the transition to a market economy, including the well-known programme ‘500 days'. In 1991 he went from the USSR Government Office to the Scientific and Industrial Union of the USSR - today called the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers) (RSPP) - as Director for Economic Policy. In November 1991 he created the Expert Institute as part of this organization and became its head. In 1993 he was appointed Head of a work group under the Chairman of the Government of the RF and actively participated in the development of economic programmes. In April 1994 he became Head of the Analytical Center under the President of the RF. In November 1994 Evgeniy Yasin was appointed Minister of the Economy of the Russian Federation, and in April 1997 - Minister of the Russian Federation. From October 1998 to present - Academic Advisor of the National Research University - Higher School of Economics, President of the Expert Institute. Since 2000 - President of the ‘Liberalnaya Missiya' (‘Liberal Mission') Foundation.