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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.

Eckhard Cordes was born in Neumünster/Germany in 1950. After studying business administration and obtaining his PhD in this field, he joined Daimler-Benz AG (today Daimler AG) in 1976. From 1976 until 1996 he held various operative and strategic executive positions within the DaimlerChrysler Group in Germany and abroad. From 1996 until 2005 he was member of the Daimler-Benz/DaimlerChrysler Group Management Board with shifting core responsibilities, inter alia the Commercial Vehicle Division and the Mercedes Benz Car Group. From 2006 until 2009 he held the position as CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH. From February 2006 until October 2007 he was also Chairman of the METRO AG Supervisory Board. From the 1st of November 2007 until the 31st of December 2011 he was Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of METRO AG. Since the 1st of December 2010 Eckhard Cordes is Chairman of The Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations. Eckhard Cordes is Partner of EMERAM Capital Partners GmbH since the 1st of May 2012. On November 5th, 2014 Eckhard Cordes was appointed Member of the Supervisory Board at Bilfinger SE. From the 1st of April 2015 Eckhard Cordes is a Member of the Board of AB Volvo.

Member of the Board of Management - International Growth, Procurement, Sustainability Departments: Brazil, Russia, Turkey, Exploration & Production, Health, Safety & Environment, Corporate Incident & Crisis Management, Procurement & Real Estate Management, Sustainability 02/13/1963: Born in Baerum (Norway) 1984 - 1988: Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen (Norway), Master of Science in Economics and Business Administration (M.Sc.) 1988 - 1991: International Fund Management Ltd. Fund Manager, Oslo (Norway) 1991 - 1999: PR consultant group Partner Geelmuyden.Kiese Group, Oslo (Norway) 1999 - 2001: Statkraft Markets SF, Executive Vice President 2001 - 2010: Statkraft AS, Executive Vice President 2001 - 2003: Markets, Commercial Operations in Europe 2004 - 2010: Generation and Markets, Europe 2004: Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen (Norway), Master of Business Administration in Finance (MBA) Since 05/2010: E.ON SE, Düsseldorf, Germany (until 2012: E.ON AG), Member of the Board of Management

Born on June 1, 1970 in Bad Soden am Taunus, married, three children. Graduated in business management, University of Cooperative Education Stuttgart. Sep 1994 – Dec 1995, Manager, Finance Process and Systems, Daimler Benz AG. Jan 1996 – Jul 1998, CEO and Founder of IT-Networks GmbH. Jul 1998 – Nov 1999, Senior Manager, Corporate War Room, DaimlerChrysler AG. Nov 1999 – Jul 2000, Director, Corporate e-Business Strategy and Corporate War Room, DaimlerChrysler AG. Jul 2000 – Sep 2002, Vice President, Corporate e-Business, DaimlerChrysler AG. Oct 2002 – Aug 2007, Member of the Board of Management Mercedes Car Group, responsible for Finance, Controlling and Strategy, DaimlerChrysler AG. Oct 2007 – Sep 2009, Managing Director Operations, Permira Beteiligungsberatung GmbH. Sep 2009 – Dec 2011, Member of the Management Board of METRO AG (CFO). Jan 2012 – present, Chairman of the Management Board of METRO AG.

Mr Tapio Kuula is President and CEO of Fortum Corporation since May 2009. He joined Fortum in 1996 and has been a member of the Management Team since 1997. Tapio Kuula holds a Master's degree both in electrical engineering and economics. He is Dr.h.c. from Lappeenranta University of Technology. His earlier positions are within forest industry and managing director positions of several utility companies. He is the Chairman of the Board of OAO Fortum, Deputy Chairman of the Board of East Office of Finnish Industries, member of the Board of Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce and member of the Board of EURELECTRIC. He is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Varma Mutual Insurance Company and member of the Supervisory Board of Finnish Fair Corporation. He is Co-chairman of Northern Dimension Business Council. He has been the Chairman/Vice Chairman of the Boards of several power and heat and distribution companies in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany and the UK.

Mr. Shiv Khemka was educated at Eton College, received a B.A. from Brown University, an M.B.A. with distinction from The Wharton School and a Master’s in International Studies from The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania. He was elected a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” (GLT) at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1997 and was invited to join the Forum’s “Foreign Business Leaders’ Council” for Russia. He is a member of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council for Education. As one of the founders and partners, Shiv also sits on the Coordination Board of the Moscow School of Management “SKOLKOVO”. SUN Group is a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in Russia, India and other emerging and transforming markets. The Group has been active in areas such as Mining, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Infrastructure, HiTech and Renewable Energy. The founding shareholder of SUN is an Indian family group that has been active in India for more than 100 years and has been working in Russia since 1958. SUN is a member of the Russian Prime Minister’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC).

Philippe Pegorier has been President and General Director of Alstom Russia since January 2011. Alstom is a global leader in power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure equipment and services. Mr. Pegorier started his career 30 years ago in Moscow after graduating from KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux. He subsequently held positions in the Ministry for the Economy and Finance of France in Paris, Teheran, Kiev and Moscow. He also served as diplomatic advisor to Christine Lagarde during her term as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade of France. Philippe Pegorier holds the title of Knight of the Legion of Honour.

Paul Rollinson was appointed Chief Executive Officer on August 1, 2012. He joined Kinross as Executive Vice-President, New Investments, in September 2008. In September 2009, he was appointed Executive Vice-President, Corporate Development. Paul joined Kinross after a long career in investment banking, most recently as the Deputy Head of Investment Banking at Scotia Capital. During his time with Scotia, he was responsible for the mining, power/utilities, forestry and industrial sectors. He also served as Managing Director/Head of Americas for the mining group within Deutsche Bank AG, and before that, was a senior member of the mining team at BMO Nesbitt Burns. Paul has an Honours BSc in Geology from Laurentian University and an M. Eng. in Mining from McGill University.

Born April 12, 1963 in Moscow. Education: Higher. D. Sc. (Economics) Speaks German 1985: Graduated from Moscow Finance Institute specialising in Finances and Credit. 08.1985–03.1987 – RSFSR Ministry of Finance, economist, senior economist. 03.1987–05.1989 – Served in the Soviet Army. 05.1989–01.1992 – RSFSR Ministry of Finance, leading economist, category 1 economist, leading economist, deputy head of subdepartment, consultant. 02.1992–02.1992 – Ministry of Economics and Finance of the Russian Federation, deputy head of department. 02.1992–10.1997 – Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, deputy head of Budget Management Department, head of department, deputy head of Budget Department. 10.1997–07.2003 – Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, head of Macroeconomic Policy and Banking Department; from 22.03.2001 member of the Ministry of Finance Board. 07.2003–05.2004 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. 05.2004–12.2005 – Director of Inter-budgetary Relations Department. 12.2005–09.2011 – Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. 09.2011–12.2011 – Acting Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Since 12.2011 – Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. 2001 – awarded certificate of merit of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. 2002 – received Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation. 2002 – received Gratitude of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. 2013 – received order “For services to the Homeland” Grade III.

Jean-Pascal Tricoire joined Schneider Electric in 1986. He was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in 2006 and named Chairman & CEO in April 2013. His career at Schneider Electric has developed largely outside France in operational functions in Italy, China, South Africa and USA. Within the General Management, he served as Vice Executive President of the International Operating Division from 2002 before being appointed in 2004 Chief Operating Officer (COO). Moreover, Jean-Pascal is President of the France-China Committee since 2009. Jean-Pascal holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a MBA.

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.

Chairman and Managing Partner, KPMG in Russia and the CIS, Member of the KPMG Global Board and the Board of KPMG in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Oleg joined KPMG in Moscow in 1997. Since 1 October 2012, Oleg acts as Chairman and Managing Partner of KPMG in Russia and the CIS. Prior to this appointment, Oleg was CIS Head of Audit. Under Oleg KPMG's Audit practice became the biggest in the Russian market. Oleg is as a member of KPMG's Global Board and Global Council, as well as of the Board of KPMG in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Oleg has extensive experience with companies in various sectors of the economy. He has actively assisted in a number of IPOs by large Russian groups on international and Russian stock exchanges, in major mergers and acquisitions, as well as complex restructuring cases. Oleg is a member of the Board of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), of the U.S.-Russia Business Council Board and as well as a Supervisory Board Member of The National Coordination Council for Development of Economic Relations with the Asia-Pacific Region.

Prior to becoming CEO of RDIF in 2011, Kirill Dmitriev headed a number of large private equity funds and completed a series of landmark transactions, including the sale of Delta Bank to General Electric, Delta Credit Bank to Société Générale, STS Media to Fidelity Investments, etc. At the beginning of his career he worked at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company. He is Deputy Chairman of the Investment Council under the Chairman of the State Duma of Russia, Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and was appointed by the President of Russia as a member of the BRICS and the APEC business councils; he also was selected as ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. He serves as a member of the boards of directors of Rostelecom, Gazprombank, MDMG, Russian Railways and a member of the boards of trustees of the Mariinsky Theatre and Moscow State University. In 2011 he was the only Russian representative in the list of ‘100 most influential private equity professionals of the decade’ (Private Equity International). He holds a BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School.

Born August 8, 1966 in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. In 1988 graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a degree in International Economic Relations. Work experience: 1990–1996: Senior Deputy Director and then Vice-President of the Probusiness Foreign Trade Centre 1997: Head of Financial Operations Division and then Vice-Chairman of the Management Board of Commercial Bank Probusinessbank 2000: Senior Vice-President of AKB Probusinessbank 2002: Vice-President of JSC Foreign Trade Bank (Vneshtorgbank) 2004: Chairman of the Management Board of ZAO KB GUTA-BANK (later renamed as VTB-24) 2005–2008: Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Commercial Bank (Cyprus) Ltd (Cyprus) 2008 – April 2011: Senior Vice-President and Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Bank VTB 2011–2015: President and Chairman of the Management Board of JSC Bank of Moscow 2015 – CEO of ROSSIYSKY CAPITAL Bank Public activity: Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Member of the Public Council of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Member of the Presidential Council on the residential policy and residence accessibility. Fluent in English and Persian.

Vladislav Soloviev was appointed as RUSAL’s CEO in November 2014. He is responsible for Company’s long-term development, driving output growth of value-added products and further penetration into new strategic markets. Since April 2010 Vladislav Soloviev was First deputy CEO and was responsible for the company’s operational management with a focus on increasing RUSAL’sbusiness efficiency and improving production and financial performance. Between 2008 and 2010, Vladislav Soloviev was CEO of En+. Between February 2001 and January 2008 he was Head of RUSAL’s Finance Directorate. Between 2000 and 2001 he was Director of RUSAL’s Accounting Department. From 1998 to 2000 Mr Soloviev held the position of Deputy Director of the Department of Tax Policy and worked as an adviser to the Minister for Taxes of the Russian Federation. From 1994 to 1998 Vladislav Soloviev held various executive positions in UNICON/MC Consulting with responsibility for auditing oil and gas companies. Mr. Soloviev serves on the Board of En+ Group. Since 2013 he also serves on the Board of OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel. For three years he was Chairman of the Board of RussNeft. Vladislav Soloviev graduated Summa Cum Laude from the State Academy of Management and later received a degree from «Stankin» Moscow Technical University. He also graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation and earned an MBA degree from the Antwerp University in Belgium.