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Education: Academy of National Economy Economics and Management Career History: 2012 - present: Renaissance Life and Pension, General Director 2005 –2012: Renaissance Life and Pension Managing Director 2003 – 2005:Pechora Neft, Commercial Director 2001 – 2003:Eurochim, Sales Director 2000 – 2001:Fresh Gmbh (Russia), Sales Manager 1996 – 2001:AON Insurance Combined (Australia), Territory Sales Manager Additional Information: Academy of Training, AON Insurance (Australia)International Oil Training Pricing and Risk Management Courses Communication in Management Teams (Training Boutique).

Have great experience of working in Public and Private Sector, as well as in international. International sector: Senior Actuary. International Actuarial Service. Financial and Actuarial Branch of the Social Security Department of the ILO. Geneva. Activities in the whole world, Senior Social Security Expert. ILO Multidisciplinary Team for Central America and Panama. Activities in Mexico, Central America, Panama, Spanish and French speaking Caribbean. Also in charge of support activities on social security issues in the Andean countries, the Southern Cone and the English Speaking Caribbean, Deputy Regional Director. ILO Regional Office for the Americas. Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Policy and Research Coordinator. Social Protection Sector. ILO. Genev. Activities in the whole world, Acting Secretary general and Chief of the Studies and Operations Branch. International Social Security Association (ISSA), Director of Partnerships. International Social Security Association (ISSA), Chief. Education, Training and Capacity Building on Social Security. Social Security Department of the ILO. Gebeva, Director a.i. Social Protection Department. Policy Portfolio. ILO. Geneva, Senior Actuarial Adviser to the Deputy Director-General for Policy.

Born on 4 October 1964 in Moscow. 1986: graduated from Moscow Institute of Finance as an economist. 1986: started working as an economist in the Office of financing Social Security of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1987: economist for the Office of Financing Health and Welfare of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1988: worked as senior economist in Division of funding for Social Development the Ministry of Finance. 1988 – 1989: served in the Soviet Army.1989: held various posts in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.1994: appointed Deputy Head of the General Office of the Federal Treasury, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.July 1999 - July 2008: worked for the Government of the Russian Federation.17 July 2008: appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Order of Honour with the title of “Honoured economist of the RF”. Married with a daughter and a son.

Irina Lisitsyna has headed the Fund since February 2012. She joined the Fund from Otkritie Bank, where she served as Managing Director and head of asset management (2009–2012). Previously, she had worked for the Otkritie investment group as financial consulting director and department director (2004–2009). Before joining Otkritie, she served as Executive Director at LLC Media-Holding REN TV (2001–2003) and Financial Director in Avis corporation units (1993–2000). She graduated from Moscow State University in 1990 and from the Manager Training Centre at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, specializing finance, in 1994. She completed a Stock Market course at the Finansist centre under the Budget and Treasury Academy of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and received a qualification as a specialist in investment institutions and stock markets in 1996. She holds a 7.0 qualification certificate from the National Association of Stock Market Participants ‘Operation of a non-governmental pension fund in non-governmental pension provision’. She was born in Krasnodar in 1968.

Michal Rutkowski is a newly appointed Country Director for the Russian Federation. He is also a former Director of the Office for Social Security Reform in the Government of Poland (1996-97) and a co-author of the design of the new Polish pension system. From 1998-2004, back in the World Bank, as Sector Manager for social protection, he led a team of professionals working on pensions, labor market and social assistance reforms in 28 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union, as well as in Turkey. In 2004 he moved to human development Sector Director position in the Middle East and North Africa Region, and in 2008 to an equivalent position in the South Asia Region. Mr. Rutkowski studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (Ph.D. in economics, 1987) and the London School of Economics (post-graduate studies). Before joining the World Bank in 1990, he was an Associate Professor teaching Economics and doing research work in Labor Economics, Comparative Economics, and Macroeconomics in the Institute for Economic Policy of the Warsaw School of Economics (1987-88).

2013: creation of his own company “THOMAS VENDÔME INVESTMENT”: private Equity, Real Estate Investments and advisory especially for European and Russian companies. 1998 – 2013: LAZARD partner. Former representative of French President Nicolas Sarkozy – French – Russian economic cooperation. March 2012: report on the creation of an economic Euro – Russian area. Appointed by the French Ministry of the Economy to follow cross-boarder investments and programme of privatizations between France and Russia within C.E.F.I.C. (Conseil Economique, Financier, Industriel et Commercial). Political career. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: one of the leaders in Republican Party. Member of Finance Committee : spokesman on the Economy and the Budget, Special Finance Committee reporter. Author of the Thomas Law (March 1997) for creating pension funds in France. The Euro : Representant of the Parliament at the Euro Committee. Privatisations: in 1998, as a Member of the Parliament, he wrote a book “Les privatisations”. Member of the International Advisory Board of RUSAL, member of the board of RECYLEX Group. Advisor of SANOFI. Senior Advisor of the president of AMUNDI. Member of the “Cercle de l’Union Interalliée”. Born in 1957 in Vosges (France).