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Born 1954, M.Sc. (Soc.Sc.). From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Esko Aho was the Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Responsibility at Nokia Corporation. Before joining Nokia Mr. Aho served as a member of Finnish parliament for 20 years, from 1983. Mr. Aho has enjoyed a distinguished career, including the post of Prime Minister of Finland from 1991 to 1995. In 2000 he joined the Harvard University as a lecturing professor. Following the retirement from the Finnish Parliament, Esko Aho worked as a private consultant. In July 2004 he was appointed President of the Finnish Innovation Fund, SITRA. Currently, Mr. Aho is board member of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation and Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Skolkovo Foundation since 2012. Mr. Aho is an invited member of the Club de Madrid, an independent organization of former heads of state and government dedicated to strengthening democracy. Mr. Aho is also visiting lecturer at Beijing University and Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy. In 2013 Mr. Aho was appointed as an Executive Chairman of East Office of Finnish Industries representing the leading Finnish corporations in Russia. He was also appointed to head the Business Team for Russia – the cooperation venture of the Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, East Office and the Confederation of Finnish Industries EK’s Russia functions.

Born 25/06/1949 in Budapest, Hungary EDUCATION 1975 - Doctor’s Degree in Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences 1972 - University Degree in Economics, Budapest University of Economic Sciences PROFESSIONAL CAREER Since 2005 - Deputy Director General, Dg Trade, European Commission 2002-2005 - Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the WTO 2004-2005 - Chairman, Working Group on Trade, Debt and Finance 2002-2004 - Chairman, Special Session of the Dispute Settlement Body 2000-2002 - Deputy State Secretary for International Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Budapest 1996-2000 - Deputy State Secretary for International Economic Relations, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Budapest 1994-1996 - Assistant State Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Budapest 1991-1994 - Director General, Ministry of International Economic Relations 1986-1991 - Deputy Head of the Gatt Representation of Hungary 1989-1991 - Chairman, Meat Market Analyses Group of the International Meat Council and the Meat Coucil 1982-1986 - Director, Ministry of Foreign Trade 1978-1982 - Commercial Counsellor, Commercial Representation of Hungary in Colombo, Sri Lanka 1972-1978 - Desk Officer for South East Asia, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Budapest Széchenyi István College, Faculty of Economics, Győr

Born in 1957. Graduated with honors from the faculty of automation and computer engineering of the Moscow Railway Transport Engineering Institute (MIIT). In 1990 Viktor Vekselberg founded Renova, an asset management company. Mr. Vekselberg currently holds office as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of companies. In 1996 he founded SUAL Group and served as its President until 2003 when he eventually chaired the Board of Directors of the Group. Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Tumen Oil Company from 2002 until 2003. Member of the Board of Directors of TNK-BP from 2003 until 2013. Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Company Rusal (UC Rusal) from 2007 until March 2012. In March 2010, Viktor Vekselberg was appointed as Head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center project. Viktor Vekselberg has been President of the Skolkovo Foundation since June 2010.

Born on September 17, 1957 in Villach, Austria. Education: Studied economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Vienna University of Economics and Business, MBA; Harvard Business School, AMP. Michigan State University, Honorary Doctorate of Engineering. Professional History: 1985, Senior Management Consultant, Kienbaum und Partner. 1988, Various management positions in Spain, the US, Germany, the UK and Japan, Hoechst Group. 2000, Chairman, President and CEO, Aventis Pharma Ltd., Japan. 2002, President of Amersham Health and Member of the Board of Directors, Chief Operating Officer and Member of the Board of Directors, Amersham plc, UK. 2004, President and CEO of GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences (GE Healthcare, UK), Member of the Executive Board, General Electric Company (GE). 2006, President of Global Human Health, Merck & Co., Inc. July 2007, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens AG.

Alexey Likhachev was born on the 23rd of December, 1962, in Arzamas-75 (Sarov). 1985: the Lobachevsky State University of Gorky, the Radiophysical Department. 1998: Ph.D. in Economics, the Lobachevsky State University of Gorky. 1985 – 1987: Engineer at the Gorky Research Institute of Instrument Engineering. 1987 - 1988: Secretary of the Youth League Committee at the Gorky Research Institute. 1988 – 1992: the Second Secretary, the First Secretary, the Secretary of the Gorky Youth League Committee. 1992 – 2000: Director of Aval, Social and Industrial Insurance Company, Nizhni Novgorod. 2000 – 2007: State Duma Deputy of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, a committee member, Deputy Chairperson of the State Duma Committee of the RF for economic policy, business and tourism. 2007 – 2008: Councilor to the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. 2008 – 2010: Director of the Joint Department of Analysis and Regulation of Foreign Economic Activity at the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. 2010 – 2015: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Since 13 February, 2015, A. Likhachev held the position of the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Since 5 October, 2016, Alexey Likhachev held the position of the Director General of ROSATOM.

Frans van Houten started his career with the company in 1986 in marketing and sales at Philips Data Systems. In 1993 he was appointed vice president international sales and operations of Philips Kommunikations Industrie in Germany. In 1996 Mr. Van Houten joined Philips’ Consumer Electronics division for which he led the region Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, based in Singapore. In 2002, he became co-CEO of the Consumer Electronics division and was appointed member of Philips’ Group Management Committee in 2003. In 2004, Mr. Van Houten was appointed CEO of Philips Semiconductors and in 2006 joined Philips’ Board of Management until the spin out and creation of NXP Semiconductors in September of that year, when he became the CEO of NXP. Prior to re-joining Philips, Mr. Van Houten was leading a project to separate ING Group’s banking and insurance operations as an independent advisor to ING’s management board. In January 2011, Mr. Van Houten assumed the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO) within Philips. Mr. Van Houten was born in the Netherlands in 1960 and holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

In January 2014, Anatoliy Chubais was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board of RUSNANO Managing Company LLC, which was set up within the scope of the OJSC RUSNANO Strategy up to 2020 envisaging division of management functions and possession of company assets. Since September 2008, Anatoly Chubais has headed state corporation Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies and, since it was transformed into an open joint-stock company in March 2011, had held the position of Chairman of the Executive Board of OAO RUSNANO. From 1998 to 2008, Anatoly Chubais headed up RAO UES of Russia. From 1997 through 1998 he was First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and from 1996 through 1997 Chief of Staff of the Russian Presidential Executive Office. From 1992 to 1996 he was Deputy Prime Minister and then First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for economics and financial policy. From 1995 to 1996, Anatoly Chubais was the Russian Federation manager in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. 1991–1994 saw him as Chairman of the State Committee of the Russian Federation for management of state property, when he authored and co-ordinated the Russian privatisation programme. Earlier, in 1990–1991, he was Vice-Chairman and then First Vice-Chairman of the Leningrad Soviet executive committee.