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Oxana graduated from the Economics Department of the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1997, she started her career in the information desk of Channel One – TV and became the creator and host of a morning economics bulletin after a year. Throughout her professional life in Russian television, Oxana has always specialized in creating content on economics and business. She managed and hosted economics-related programs on Channel One and NTV, participated in the creation of several programs for the Rossiya television channel. Oxana is a creator of the television series “Russia’s Credit History” and the documentaries “History of the Bank of Russia” and “Sberbank. Version 1.7.0.” She heads Business Program Development Department of Russia Today channel since 2008. Oxana is winner of the Person of the Year award (for developing the coverage of economics on Russian television). She is winner of the “Business Olympia” prize and the “Financial Elite of Russia” prize of the all-Russian Business Journalism Contest of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Oxana is a frequent guest and moderator at world-wide forums and conferences. She is a professional journalist who is always attentive to facts and figures, making any discussion interesting and accessible to any audience.

Born June 13, 1972 in Murmansk. 1994: graduated in organisation of the machinery industry from St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University as an Engineer-Economist. 2000: completed a post-graduate programme at St. Petersburg State University with a CSc (Econ.). 2005, obtained an Executive MBA degree from the Business School of Chicago University and holds a Ph.D.??? in Economics. 1999 to 2004, Senior Deputy General Director at Lenenergo, Open Joint Stock Company of the Power Industry and Electrification. 2004 to 2005: Head of Department for government regulation of tariffs and infrastructure reforms of the Russian Ministry for Economic Development and Trade. He has been Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister of of the Russian government since November 2005. May 2008 through April 2010: Deputy Chief of Staff in the Prime Minister's office of the Russian Federation. Mr. Androsov is currently a Managing Partner of Altera Capital. He has been as a Member of the Board of Directors at OJSC OC Rosneft; OJSC RAO UES of Russia; OAO Svyazinvest, Zarubezhneft, JSC Interregional distribution grid companies Holding (alternate name Joint Stock Company Russian Grids).Since 2011, member of the public council of the Federal Tax Service, Professor at the Higher School of Economics. Member or the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation and the Public Council under the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

Mr. Braverman was born on May 1, 1954. He graduated from Kharkiv Engineering and Economics Institute and completed graduate studies at Lomonosov Moscow State Institute of Fine Chemical Technologies. He is a Doctor of Economic Sciences and a professor. 1995–1997 – He served as president of the Russian Marketing Association. 1997–1999 – He was Deputy Chairman of the State Property Committee of the Russian Federation and then First Deputy Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation as well as acting Minister of State Property of the Russian Federation. 1999–2000 – He served as president of the Russian Marketing Association. 2000–2004 – He was Deputy Minister of Property Relations of the Russian Federation and a State Secretary. 2006–2008 – He served as Chairman of the Committee for the Development of an Affordable Housing Market under the Russian Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and the Demographic Policy. August 2008 – Under Order No. 1145-r of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, he was appointed Director General of the Russian Housing Development Foundation.On Oct the 2nd 2015 A. Braverman was appointed as General Director of Joint-stock company «Russian Small and Medium Business Corporation» (JSC «RSMB Corporation» ). From October 12, 2015 he is a member of the Board of Directors of JSC «RSMB Corporation» ex officio.

Dragomir J. Karic is an entrepreneur and public and political activist. Born on October 21, 1949 in Pec, Republic of Serbia. In 1972, Mr. Karic graduated from the Department of Organizational Sciences at the University of Belgrade. Dragomir J. Karic is one of the owners of the international corporate group DANA HOLDING, which was founded in 1973 as a private company on the territory of socialist Yugoslavia under the name of Karic Brothers. Since 1987, Dragomir J. Karic has been the head of the company’s activities in the territory of Russia and CIS. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. In 1993, Mr. Karic was elected to serve as an active member of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences. In 1996, he was elected to serve as an active member of the Russian Academy of Social Sciences. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1995, he founded the Karic Brothers International Academy of Business and Management in Moscow. In October 2012, Dragomir J. Karic was awarded the Order of the Russian-Serbian Cooperation & Friendship Foundation. In December 2012, the President of the Republic of Belarus expressed his gratitude to Dragomir J. Karic for his significant personal contribution to the development of trade and economic relations and the strengthening of friendship ties between the Republic of Belarus and Serbia. In October 2013, Dragomir J. Karic received the Russian nationwide public award Order of the Russian Nation. Dragomir J. Karic has served as the deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia since June 2012. In December 2013, Dragomir J. Karic took office as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus in Belgrade. Dragomir is married, and has four children.

Graduated from Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy in 2004. 2004–2008: specialist-expert, consultant, advisor to the Department of Support for Priority National Projects of the Presidential Experts’ Directorate of the of the Russian Federation. Graduated from Kutafin Moscow State Academy of Law in 2012. 2008–2013: Assistant to First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov, Deputy Chief of Secretariat of First Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov. 2013–2015: Secretary of State – Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation. The Supervisory Council of the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending appointed him CEO of the Agency on April 20, 2015. State decorations: Medal of the Order “Merits before the Motherland” 1st degree, Medal of the Order “Merits before the Motherland” 2nd degree, commendations from the President of the Russian Federation, a letter of commendation from the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

Graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, the USSR Academy of Foreign Trade and completed a business executives’ course at Harvard Business School. 1994-1998 Chairman of the Management Board at NOMOS-Bank. 1998-2000 Adviser and Deputy General Director at Rosvooruzheniye. 2000-2005 President and Chairman of the Management Board at NOMOS-Bank. 2005 appointed Assistant to the Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. Mr. Finogenov was appointed Chairman of the Management Board at EDB on 16 June 2006.

Born January 4, 1967, in Bilibino, Magadan Region. 1993: graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow State University with a degree in jurisprudence. 1984–1985: laboratory assistant at the EKOS Scientific Research Institute. 1985–1987: served in the Soviet Army. 1993: attaché of the Law Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. 1993–1995: senior legal adviser at ALM Consulting. 1995: Director, ALM Law Office. 1997: Head of Department of the State Register of Federal Property, State Committee of the Russian Federation for State Property Management. 1998: Deputy Minister for State Property of the Russian Federation. 1998–2000: Chairman, Russian Federal Property Fund. 2000–2003: Chief of the Government Staff in the rank of Minister. 2003: Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. 2003–2004:Deputy Head of Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. 2004: Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. 2005: Russian Sherpa in the G8. 2008: First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Married with two sons and two daughters.

Mark Garber is a well-known financier in the Russian investment community. In 1987 he was a cofounder of Sintez Cooperative. In 1995 in cooperation with Hans-Joerg Rudloff (former CEO of Credit Suisse and Chairman of the Executive Committee at Barclays Capital since 1998), Mark established UCB Financial Group. In 1998 after UCB was bought out by investment bank Robert Fleming & Co, Mark became the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Fleming UCB. In 2000 following Robert Fleming & Co being purchased by Chase Group, Mr Garber and Roderick D. Fleming established the global financial group Fleming Family & Partners and Mark became a Board Member and Senior Partner of FF&P. From 2000 to 2012, Mark was a Senior Partner and a Board Member at Fleming Family & Partners. In 2012 in collaboration with Ian Hannam, bought out the Russian division of FF&P which was used as the foundation for newly established GHP Group. Following establishment of GHP Group in 2012, Mark has been a Senior Partner and Chairman of the Board of the Company.

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.

Date of birth: October 27, 1977 (Pavlodar, Kazakhstan). Education: Bachelor’s degree from the Department of Economics of Novosibirsk State University (cum laude); Master’s degree from the Department of Economics of Novosibirsk State University. Work experience: 2000–2013: Lectured at the Department of Economics at Novosibirsk State University (course on Management). 2000–2009: Headed structural divisions and served as financial director of Sibirsky Bereg Group (Novosibirsk), which specialises in food (snack) production. 2010: Became director of AKD Group (Novosibirsk), which specialises in development.

In 1987, Mr. Semenyaka graduated with honours from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1990, he completed advanced foreign language courses under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. In 1991, he graduated from the International Business School of the National Market Research Institute under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade. In 1999, Mr. Semenyaka earned the degree of PhD in economic sciences. From 1992 to 1995, he served as President of AO Analysis, Consultations and Marketing. From 1994 to 1996, he was President of OAO Federal Stock Corporation. From February to June 1996, he was General Director of ZAO Horizon Investment Company. From June 1996 to April 2002, he served as a member of the Management Board, Head of the Securities and Long-Term Financing Department, and Head of the Corporate Finance Department of OJSC Gazprom. Since April 2002, he has been General Director of OJSC Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending. Mr. Semenyaka is a member of the Supervisory Council at OJSC Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending, Chairman of the Executive Board at OJSC Agency for the Restructuring of Housing Mortgage Loans, a member of the interdepartmental working group for the priority national project “Affordable and Comfortable Housing for Russian Citizens” under the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and the Demographic Policy , a member of the Commission for the Development of an Affordable Housing Market under the Presidential Council for the Implementation of Priority National Projects and the Demographic Policy, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow School of Economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University.