Programme

Charles Robertson, a leading emerging markets specialist, is Renaissance Capital’s Global Chief Economist and Head of the Firm’s Macro-strategy Unit. Mr. Robertson covers the global economic themes having the greatest impact on emerging markets. Over the past decade, the scope of Mr. Robertson’s work has covered, among other topics: quantifying political risk in emerging markets; how the retirement age rising to 67 reflects deep-rooted problems in the West and great opportunities in emerging markets; the revolutionary nature of growth in countries with non-democratic governments; the fact that Africa’s economies are now returning some of the highest growth rates on Earth, and how this trend is set to play out; the impact of terrorism and natural disasters on economies; the effects of falling agricultural stocks on food prices and inflation; and how emerging-markets banks may have the best growth potential over the coming years. Mr. Robertson is the lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution (www.fastestbillion.com), published in October 2012. Mr. Robertson was ranked the number-one economics and macro analyst for emerging Europe, the Middle East and Africa in the Extel survey in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In addition, the team he led was ranked the best macro team in Extel’s 2010 survey of equity investors. Another of Charlie’s teams took first place for SSA coverage in the institutional investor survey for 2012.

H.E. Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei was appointed as UAE Minister of Energy on 12 March 2013. The Ministry’s functions focus on contribution to sustainable development, coordinating and representing petroleum affairs, minerals, electricity and water and is charged with the responsibility of assuring that these resources are utilized to support the national economy in a pioneering and exemplary fashion in collaboration with other relevant authorities. H.E. Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei, in addition to his portfolio as Minister of Energy, has the following duties: - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Electricity and Water Authority. - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mubadala Petroleum Co. - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Emirates Liquified Gas Co. - Member of the Higher Advisory Committee of the Supreme Petroleum Council. - Member of the Board of Directors of the Petroleum Development Co. - Member of the Board of Directors of the Dolphin Energy Co. - Member of the Audit Committee of ADNOC. Mr Al Mazrouei has excellent experience in corporate administration in different sectors including ship building, defense systems, oil and gas services sector and real estate development. Furthermore Mr. Al Mazrouei has held multiple positions in government as well as the private sector and has achievements realized in the service of the country and through his career in ADNOC which spanned 10 years before he moved to Mubadala Company in 2007. As a petroleum engineer Mr. Suhail Al Mazrouei rose through the ranks till he became the Director of Production and Engineering Facilities for all the companies operating in the offshore area of Abu Dhabi. He managed and coordinated a collective production of more than one million barrels daily. In addition HE Suhail Mohamed Al Mazrouei was seconded between 2004-2005 to Shell EP in the Netherlands, where he gained experience in many international projects in Nigeria, North Sea, Brunei and the Netherlands. During his career in Mubadala Company he succeeded in adding new projects to the company’s portfolio assets in Bahrain, Oman and Kazakhstan, which increased the value of the company’s shares. He was responsible for the development of new projects as well as investments in exploration and production in Middle Eastern countries and Africa. Mr. Al Mazrouei graduated in 1996 from the University of Tulsa the United States with a Bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering. He was born on 01/07/1973 in Dubai and among his hobbies are poetry, letters and history. He is married and has three children.

Dr Fan Gang is one of China's most influential economists and one of China's leading reform advocates. His remarks are closely followed for clues about how Chinese leaders are thinking about the global economy. Based in Beijing, he is the Director of the National Economic Research Institute (NERI) and Chairman of the China Reform Foundation, China's first economic think-tank. Trained at the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS) and Harvard University, he is also a professor at several top universities in China. Dr Fan Gang is a respected advisor to China's leadership on economic reform and strategic development. He is an expert in the macroeconomics of long-term development, international trade and currency, foreign relations and China's regional integration within Asia. He speaks on China's financial risk and financial systems reform, foreign exchange regimes and revaluation and on China's economic reform and globalisation. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of China, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Center for Monetary Policy, sits as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Center of International Development, Harvard University, is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China, is an advisor to the State Foreign Exchange Administration of China and International Advisor to the Center for International Development at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum (since 1994), a Fellow of the Chinese Economist Society (USA) (since 1993) and is a consultant to the World Bank, UNDP, ESCAP and to the OECD. He was awarded the accolade of a 'Global Leader for Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum in Davos (1995) and has been ranked number 33rd in the "world's top 100 public intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect (2008).

Oleg Deripaska was appointed as RUSAL’s President in November 2014. He oversees new development strategies for the Company. Since January 2009 Oleg Deripaska was Chief Executive Officer of UC RUSAL. In 1997, Mr Deripaska, then Director General of the Sayanogorsk aluminium smelter, created Russia’s first vertically integrated company – Siberian Aluminium (in 2001 renamed Basic Element) that later incorporated a number of Russia’s leading aluminium production facilities. In 2000, Siberian Aluminium became one of the world’s top ten aluminium producers.. Between 2000 and 2003, Mr Deripaska was Director General of RUSAL, which was created through the merger of Siberian Aluminium and Sibneft’s aluminium and alumina assets. In 2007, Russia’s RUSAL and SUAL and Swiss Glencore merged to create United Company RUSAL, the world’s largest producer of aluminium. In 2009, the year of global economic recession, Oleg Deripaska once again stepped in to head up RUSAL. Mr Deripaska graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Physics Department of Moscow State University and later received a degree from the Plekhanov Academy of Economics. Oleg Deripaska is Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Russian National Committee and a member of the Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Council which is a Russian Government Agency. He also serves on the Boards of Trustees of the National Science Support Foundation, the Bolshoi Theatre and the Schools of Business Administration of the Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities. In 2004, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin appointed Oleg Deripaska as Russia’s Representative in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council. In 2007, he was appointed Chairman of the Council’s Branch in Russia. In 1999, Mr Deripaska was awarded with the Order of Friendship. In 1999, 2006 and 2007 he was named «Businessman of the Year» by the Russian leading business daily Vedomosti. He was also named the Industry Ambassador of the Year at 2013 Metal Bulletin Global Aluminium Award for Excellence.

Daniel Jaeggi is President, Co-Founder and Head of Global Trading, Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. Together with Marco Dunand, he co-founded Mercuria Energy Trading S.A. in 2004, which within a few years became one of the leading energy and commodity trading companies world-wide. Previous to this, Mr Jaeggi directed the launch of Sempra Oil Trading SARL in Europe, where together with Mr Dunand he was responsible for trading operations in Europe and Asia. From 1994 to 1999, Mr Jaeggi directed trading operations at Salomon Brothers in London, covering Europe and Asia. From 1987 to 1994 while based in London at Goldman Sachs’ J.Aron division, Mr Jaeggi traded crude oil and petrochemical feed-stocks. Prior to that, Mr Jaeggi was at Cargill International S.A. in Switzerland, responsible for trading Naptha and LPG. A Swiss citizen, Mr Jaeggi studied political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, the University of Geneva and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales. He holds a Masters degree in Political Science from HEI.