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Grant Porter is a Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Barclays and Chairman of Global Natural Resources Banking. Mr. Porter joined Barclays Capital from Lehman Brothers in September 2008, where he held the same position and served on the firm’s Senior Client Counsel, Investment Banking Business Development Committee and Principal Opportunities Committee. While at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Porter received the Chairman’s Award for Extraordinary Client Service and the President’s Award for Corporate Citizenship. Prior to his most recent position at Lehman Brothers, he led the firm’s Global Natural Resources Investment Banking for 16 years as both Head and Co-Head and was based in London from 2000-2003 where he also served on the Executive Committee for European Investment Banking. Over his more than 40 year career Mr. Porter has been involved in many of the most important corporate finance and M&A advisory assignments for the natural resource industry. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers as a Managing Director in 1986, Mr. Porter was a Managing Director in the Chase Investment Bank covering Energy Corporate Finance at Chase Manhattan Bank. Prior to that, Mr. Porter was Vice President and National Petroleum Executive in Chase Manhattan Bank’s Petroleum Division. Mr. Porter holds a B.A. in English from Brown University and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

He graduated from Voznesensky Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute and holds a PhD in Economics. Upon graduation, Alexey Miller was engineer-economist at the General planning division of Leningrad Civil Construction Research and Design Institute (LenNIIproekt under the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council). 1990 - Junior researcher, Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute; Section Head, Economic Reform Committee, Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. 1991–1996 - Head of the Markets Monitoring Division, Foreign Economic Relations Directorate, External Relations Committee of St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office; Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Directorate; Deputy Chairman of the External Relations Committee. 1996–1999 - Director for Development and Investments, Sea Port of St. Petersburg. 1999–2000 - Director General of Baltiyskaya Truboprovodnaya Sistema (Baltic Pipeline System). 2000 - Deputy Energy Minister of the Russian Federation. Since 2001 - Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom. Since 2002 – Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors.

Mr Alexander Novak, born August 23rd , 1971 in Donetsk region of Ukranian SSR, is currently serving as Russia's Minister of Energy. From 2000 to 2002 he was Deputy Mayor of Norilsk on financial and economic issues and First Deputy Mayor of Norilsk. In 2002-2007 was Vice Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Head of the Main Financial Directorate of the Krasnoyarsk Krai administration. From July 2007 to September 2008 he was the First Vice Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai and from July to September 2008 he was also the Chairman of the government of Krasnoyarsk Krai. From September 2008 he was the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation and from October 2008, a member of the board of the Ministry of Finance of Russia. He is a graduated from the Norilsk Industrial Institute and the Moscow Lomonosov State University.

Jean-François Cirelli was born on July 9, 1958, in Chambéry (France). He is a graduate of the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (1983-1985). He also has a degree in law. He began his professional career in 1985 when he went to work for the Treasury division of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finances. He was successively in charge of housing policy, the General Secretariat of the Paris Club (rescheduling of sovereign debt) and the regulation of financial markets. He was also an alternate director for France at the IMF. In 1995, he was named economic counselor to the President of the French Republic (Jacques Chirac), a position he held until 2002. In 2002, Jean-François Cirelli was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to the French Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin). He was primarily in charge of economic, industrial and labor issues. In 2004, Jean-François Cirelli was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaz de France, where he organized the merger with Suez, which took place on July 2008. Since then, Jean-François Cirelli has been Vice Chairman and President of GDF SUEZ. In addition, all activities of GDF SUEZ Energy Europe have been under his direct responsibility since January 1st, 2012. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Electrabel, Board Member of SUEZ Environnement and Supervisory Board Member of Vallourec. He has been President of Eurogas association since June 11, 2010. Jean-François Cirelli is married and the father of two children. He is a « Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur » and « Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite ».

Harald Schwager is a Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, a position he assumed in 2008. Schwager is currently responsible for Construction Chemicals, Crop Protection and Bioscience Research, as well as the Region Europe. Prior to this, he was President of Verbund Site Management Europe from 2007 to 2008 and President of Verbund Site Management Ludwigshafen from 2006 to 2007. From 2003 to 2006 he was President of the Inorganics division. In 1988, Schwager started his career with BASF in polypropylene catalyst research. After working in technical service for polypropylene and marketing and sales for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Schwager became Head of the Vinyl Chloride/Polyvinyl Chloride (VC/PVC) business unit headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. From 1999, he was Managing Director of the European companies of Solvin, a joint venture of Solvay S.A. and BASF, in Brussels. Schwager was born in Speyer, Germany, in 1960. From 1979 onwards he studied Chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and graduated there in 1984. He holds a doctorate from the MaxPlanckInstitute in Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany, which he received in 1986. Afterwards, he did a postdoc at the University of California in Berkeley, United States.

Grigory has brought more than 19 years of operational experience in oil and gas sector. In January 2015, he established VYGON Consulting company, which is entirely based on providing strategic consulting for industrial entities, analytical support for the public authorities, conducting research in the energy sector. From 2011 to 2014, Grigory was the director of Energy Center in Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. In 2008, before the foundation of the Centre, he headed the Department of Economy and Finance in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, where he was engaged in various issues, including economic incentivizing of oil and gas sector. In 2006-2008, he was the chief economist in TNK-BP, being responsible for strategic planning and analytical support to interact with public authorities. Before joining TNK-BP, he worked as an independent consultant and director in the Corporate Finance Department of the Institute of Financial Studies. In 1996, Grigory graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, in 2000 – received a PhD degree in the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of RAS. The key field of interest – oil and gas industry strategy and economic development, improvement of state regulation in terms of taxation and subsoil management. During the past 10 years, he has been actively involved in elaboration of strategic sectoral documents and regulations on economic stimulation of Russian oil and gas sector.

Petr Zolotarev graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with Degree in "Economics and organization of the machinery industry". Since 2005 he was CEO of several large companies, including "Rosvodokanal", JSC "Russian Machines", "Amtel-Vredestein". Previously he served as first vice-president, vice-president of economics and finance of "Yukos-RM", was CEO of Occidental Petroleum of the CIS. In 2012 he became executive director of CNG Project at "Russian Machines" corporation.

Born on 12 October 1978 in Moscow. Education: Roman graduated from Moscow Suvorov Military School. In 2000, he graduated from Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Foreign Languages Faculty, becoming an interpreter of Arabic and English with a major in International Economics. In 2012, he completed his MBA programme at the Higher School of Economics, majoring in Strategic Management. Employment Background: 2000–2002: Manager, Senior Manager, Business Development Department, Interma. 2003–2007: Senior Expert, Head of Science and Technology Programmes at the Economic, Scientific, and Technical Relations Office, Roszarubezhtsentr, Russian Foreign Ministry. Head of Scientific and Technical Programmes and Business Relations, Roszarubezhtsentr Representative Office in Cairo, the Arab Republic of Egypt. 2007–2009: Deputy Head, Head of the Office for the Investment Projects Coordination, Gazprom Invest Vostok (the customer for Gazprom’s investment projects performed as part of the “Programme for creating a unified system of gas production, transportation and supply in Eastern Siberia and the Far East given possible gas exports to the markets of China and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region” – otherwise known as the Eastern Gas Programme). 2009–2013: Head of Business Development and Coordination Office, Director of Foreign Production Assets Department, Norilsk Nickel. 2011–2013: Managing Director of Norilsk Nickel International Holding, where he was in charge of the Norilsk Nickel Group's production assets abroad, as well as the implementation of comprehensive investment projects in South Africa, Botswana, and Australia. In accordance with Decree 944-r of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, dated 10 June 2013, Roman Panov was appointed Managing Director of Rosgeologia.