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Born on January 20, 1961 in Abakan, Krasnoyarsk Region. Professional interests: Higher education, vocational education, human resources management. Science and technology management, energy foresight, industrial and technological foresight. Regional planning, strategy for regions and cities development, tools and mechanisms for regional development. Education: Law School of Leningrad State University (LSU), Doctor of Juridical Science Professional background: Upon graduation he became an active researcher and educator. 1989–2002 – Krasnoyarsk State University and Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University In 2002 the Center for Strategic Research of the Krasnoyarsk Region has invited him to head the laboratory of political and legal research. As an expert and consultant cooperated with a number of regional Russian and foreign strategic centers, including the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. He was engaged in projects of regional development and national industrial policy. 2004–2006 – Chief Scientific Officer of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. 2006–2014 – Director of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. 2014–present – Chairman of the Board of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. 2014–2016 – President of the “Center for Strategic Research North-West” Foundation. 2016 – present – Vice-President of the “Center for Strategic Research” Foundation.

<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>

Mikhail Blinkin is a full Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Head of the Institute for Transport Economics and Transport Policy Studies and Professor of the Graduate School of Urban Studies and Planning at the same university. He graduated from Moscow State University in mathematics in 1970. He received a Candidate of Sciences in specialty 05.13.17 ‘Theoretical Fundamentals of Informatics’ for his thesis entitled ‘Macroscopic models of transport flows within traffic management systems on motorways’ (1978). Until 1990, he worked in the industry scientific research institutes GYPRODORNII (Road Design, Survey and Research Institute) and NIIAT (Scientific and Research Institute of Motor Transport). In 1991, he organized a private research centre: Independent Transport Laboratory (TRANSLAB), which in 2003 was transformed into NP Scientific Research Institute for Transport and Highways (NIITDKh). Since 2011, he has worked at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Prof. Blinkin is one of the most published and quoted Russian transport scholars. The key spheres of his scientific activities are: national transport policy, urban studies, urban transport planning and management of city transport systems, economic and institutional problems of transport and highways, mathematical theory of transport flows and road traffic safety. In 2011–2012, he headed up the transport section of the expert project for current problems of Russia’s socio-economic strategy for the period up to 2020 (the Strategy-2020 project). He is a member of a number of expert and public structures: member of the Expert Council under the Government of the Russian Federation; member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation; member of the Civic Chamber of the City of Moscow; Chairman of the Public Council of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation; member of the Eurasian Executive Committee of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP); Professor of the International Academy of Architecture (IAA); member of the Expert Guild of the Union of Architects of Russia.

<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>

<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>

Mikhail Piotrovskiy was born in Yerevan in 1944. He graduated with honours from the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of Leningrad State University in the Department of Arab Philology (1967) and served as an intern at the Cairo University. From 1967 to 1991, he worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies and defended his candidate and doctoral theses. He became Deputy Director of the State Hermitage in 1991 and Director starting in July 1992. He has taken part in archaeological excavations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Yemen. He is the author of more than 250 scientific works, including catalogues of Arabic manuscripts, publications of medieval records and ancient inscriptions, works on the spiritual and political history of Islam and Arab culture as well as the archaeology of Arabia. He is a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an active member of the Russian Academy of Arts, and a member of the Presidential Councils of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art, and for Science and Education. He is a professor at St. Petersburg State University and chair of the Department of Museum Studies and Protection of Monuments as well as the Department of the Ancient East Countries and Dean of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies. He is a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, a member of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, President of the Union of Russian Museums, President of the World Club of St. Petersburg Residents, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European University in St. Petersburg, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, the editor-in-chief of The Christian East magazine, the chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Orthodox Palestinian Society, co-chairman of the Council on the Promotion and Support of Russian Cultural Heritage at the Federal Agency for the Affairs of the CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), and an honorary citizen of St. Petersburg. He is a member of the Consultative Group of the Council of Europe on exhibition activities. He has been awarded the Order of Honour and Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’. In 1997, in honour of father and son – Boris and Mikhail Piotrovskiy – the International Astronomical Union named one of the small discovered planets ‘Piotrovskiy’.

<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>

<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>

David Stokes is the General Manager for IBM's business in Central and Eastern Europe - a part of IBM's Growth Markets Unit. This role includes the responsibility for 30 countries in the region and a business partner network of over 3000 companies. He is responsible for IBM's client satisfaction, business performance, talent development and external relationships across the region. In addition he is helping to advance economic development in the region through the application of IBM's Smarter Planet Agenda to both government and private enterprises. David has had an extensive international career in IBM. He started his career in his native Australia 23 years ago and has held a number of business leadership positions being based in Paris. London, Shanghai and in his current role he is based in Prague. He has held senior management positions in IBM's Software Group - including responsibility for the launch and development of IBM's WebSphere family of middleware in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and later led the integration of the Lotus acquisition into IBM in EMEA. In both of these roles he worked with large European clients across several industries to develop their middleware strategies. He then held senior leadership roles in Software Group and General Business in IBM's operations in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. He has extensive experience in working with mid sized enterprises and bringing client value through the development of marketplace ecosystems. David holds a 1st Class Honours Degree (University Medal) from the University of Sydney.