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Sergei Guriev graduated summa cum laude from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993. In 1997 - 1998, he held a postdoctoral position at MIT; in 2003 - 2004, taught at Princeton University. He has published in the leading international journals, incl. American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, and Journal of European Economic Association. In 2006, Dr. Guriev was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, in 2011 he joined WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Europe. In 2009 and 2010, he was included in the top 100 of the President of Russia’s Cadre Reserve. He is a board member of Sberbank, Russia Venture Company, Alfa Strakhovanie, Russian Home Mortgage Lending Agency, and the Dynasty Foundation. He is a member of the President of Russia’s Council on Science, Technology and Education, of the Advisory Council of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington, DC) and of the Scientific Council of BRUEGEL, a Brussels-based economic policy think tank. The New Economic School is a graduate school of economics established in 1992. In the Social Science Research Network ranking, NES is ranked #70 economics department in the world and #1 in non-OECD countries.

Osman Cevdet Akçay is the Chief Economist at Koç Financial Services and Yapi Kredi. He received his B.A. in economics from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, and his M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Graduate School and University Center at City University of New York. He served at Boğaziçi University as Assistant Professor and as Associate Professor between 1992 and 2001, and was a full-time faculty member at Koç University from 2001 till September 2009. He started as an economist at Koç Yatırım (Investment Bank) in 1998 and became the Chief Economist for Koçbank and Koç Yatırım in 2000. Following the Koçbank-Yapi Kredi merger in 2006, he has been serving as the Chief Economist at Yapi Kredi as well as the umbrella company Koç Financial Services. His research fields include exchange rate theory, debt dynamics, disinflation, and monetary theory.

Dr. Lúcio Vinhas de Souza is the Sovereign Chief Economist of Moody’s Investor Services. He is also currently a Visiting Lecturer at the MGIMO University in Moscow. Before that, he was a Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where, among other things, he co-authored the “Global Economic Prospects” publication and coordinated the analysis and forecasting for developed economies and the Central Eastern Europe and CIS regions.Prior to that, Dr. Vinhas de Souza was for many years Head of the Russia/Belarus Desk at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission in Belgium and before that he was a Coordinator of Research Area at the Kiel Institute for World Economics in Germany. He has also been a visiting researcher/fellow at a number of institutions, including the Central banks of Germany and Estonia. He is widely published in several languages (including Russian) in noteworthy economic journals and has organized and participated in numerous meetings, seminars and workshops. Dr. Vinhas de Souza holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a Masters in Economics from the New University of Lisbon.

Before joining the MDM Bank Board of Directors in 2007, Oleg headed the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation, a position he had held since 2004.Between 1999 and 2002 he was Executive Vice-President at Troika Dialog, Russia’s oldest investment company. Oleg has also held a variety of senior positions within the Russian government, including First Deputy Minister of Finance, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, and extraordinary advisor to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.After graduating from the department of mechanics and mathematics at Moscow State University in 1974, Oleg successfully defended his PhD in physics and mathematics at the same university in 1977.

Mr. Djankov holds a Master's degree and PhD in International Commercial and Financial Relations, University of Michigan. He was a chief economist on finance and private sector affairs at the World Bank from 1995 until his election as Bulgarian Minister of Finance. He worked on the countries mostly threatened by the crisis worldwide. He participated in various programs of the Bank on privatization, corporate governance, regional reforms in North Africa, East Asia and other regions around the world. Mr. Djankov was a principal author of the annual review of the World Bank — World Development Report 2002. He is an author of more than 70 specialized articles in the most prestigious economic journals in the world — Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Public Economics. He is creator of the annual Doing Business report, the top-selling /in more than 100 000 copies/ publication of the World Bank Group. He is ranked among the 100 Most Cited Economists in the world. He established a think-tank at Harvard University.

Alexey Kudrin is currently Dean of School of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University. Since May 2000 till September 2011 he served as Finance Minister of Russia. His financial policies received international recognition; he was named "Finance Minister of the Year 2004" by The Banker magazine and "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine. In years 2000-2003 and 2008-2011 Alexei Kudrin also held the post of Deputy Prime-Minister. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.Before joining the government, Alexei Kudrin worked for Saint-Petersburg City government, holding positions of Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the Committee for Economy and Finances.Alexei Kudrin has academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD in Economics). He is professor, author of more than 30 research papers and articles on economics and finance, delivering lectures in many universities and colleges around the globe and providing his expertise to the government of Russia.

Yaroslav Lissovolik joined the Eurasian Development Bank as its Chief Economist in 2015. In 2001-2004 he worked in the International Monetary Fund, where he was Advisor to the Executive Director for the Russian Federation in Washington. In 2004 Yaroslav Lissovolik joined Deutsche Bank as Chief Economist; in 2009 he became Head of Company Research in Russia and in 2011- a member of the Management Board of Deutsche Bank in Russia. Yaroslav Lissovolik earned a BA in Economics from Harvard University; an MA in International Economic Relations from Moscow State Institute of International Relations; an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, holds a PhD in Economics and is a professor at the department of World Economy at the Diplomatic Academy. Yaroslav Lissovolik is a member of the Advisory Council of the Central Bank of Russia, a member of the Council on foreign and defense policy and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. In 2012 Yaroslav Lissovolik became a member of the Expert Council of the Russian government as well as the Working group on macroeconomic policy of the Presidential Economic Council. He has published books on Russia's entry to the WTO and on Russia's integration into the world economy, as well as numerous articles and papers on economic and policy issues.

Dr. Jun Ma joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 as a Managing Director, Chief Economist for Greater China, and Head of China/Hong Kong Strategy. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank , Jun worked as economist and senior economist at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank from 1992-2000. From 1988-1990, Jun was an Economic Research Fellow at the Development Research Center of China's State Council. Jun has published six books and several hundred articles on the Chinese economy, global economy, and financial markets. Jun has frequently been invited by government agencies for policy discussion. Jun has been consistently rated at the top in his fields for the past many years, including the No.1 Asia economist and the No.1 China analyst in Institutional Investors' surveys, the No 1. Economist in Asia by Thomson-Reuters, the No. 1 Asia economist and No 1. China analyst by Asiamoney, the No.1 "best economic forecaster" by Sohu Finance, as well as numerous No. 1 rankings on China economics and China strategy. Jun received his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1994, and his master's degree in Management Science from Fudan University in 1988.

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.

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.

Roland Nash joined Verno Capital in early 2011 as Partner and Chief Investment Strategist. At Verno, Roland is responsible for helping to build out the fund management business and for the macroeconomic overlay for the hedge fund. Between 2003 and 2010, he was Chief Strategist and Head of Research for Renaissance Capital, managing a team of analysts for the CIS and Africa. He began his career in Renaissance Capital in 1996 as Chief Economist, and during his time there worked as Head of Fixed Income Research, Head of Equities Research, and co-Head of the Equities Group. Between 2003 and 2010, Roland was consistently ranked as the Number 1 Strategist for Russia by Institutional Investor. Between 2007 and 2010, Roland was also ranked Number 1 Strategist for EMEA. Prior to joining Renaissance Capital, Roland spent two years as a senior economic expert at the Russian European Centre for Economic Policy (RECEP), where he was involved in advising the Russian government on economic policy. Roland is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum for the Russian Federation. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he received a BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.

Mr. Peter Ong Boon Kwee was appointed as Head of Civil Service and Permanent Secretary (Special Duties) in the Prime Minister’s Office on 1 September 2010, in addition to his appointment as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Ong represents Singapore at the G20 meetings as the G20 Sherpa and Finance Deputy. He also sits on the Boards of Monetary Authority of Singapore, National Research Foundation, ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office and Singapore Telecommunications Limited. He is also the Chairman of Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. In 2005 to 2008, Mr. Ong was the Singapore APEC Senior Official. His previous appointments were Permanent Secretary (Trade and Industry), Permanent Secretary (Transport) and 2nd Permanent Secretary (Defence). In these positions, he chaired multilateral meetings such as the ASEAN High-Level Task Force on Economic Integration and also led bilateral economic cooperation negotiations. Mr Ong graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from the University of Adelaide on a Colombo Plan Scholarship. He also holds a Master in Business Administration degree from Stanford University.

<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>