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Piotr is an experienced Fortune 500 global business leader whose career spans more than 15 years with Thomson Reuters. He possesses a strong knowledge of information technology and media markets due to his myriad roles in sales and marketing, customer service, business development and finance. He has a proven track record of driving profitable growth across key business units in six different regions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Americas and Russia CIS. Currently Piotr is based in Moscow where he is Managing Director, Thomson Reuters, Russia and the CIS. His responsibilities include managing profitable short and long term growth of all the Thomson Reuters business units in the region: Financial and Risk, Intellectual Property and Science, Legal as well as Tax and Accounting. Prior to moving into the MD role Piotr was heading the Financial business of Thomson Reuters in the region. Previously he served in several leadership roles, most recently as Head of Business Planning and Operations, Americas, F&R, based in New York City. In 2009 he became Global Head of Business Planning and Operations, Global Sales and Customer Service, based in London. Piotr previous experience includes various front line roles across Middle-East, Africa and Europe, which covered Transactions Services, Capital Markets, Business Development and Channel Marketing. Prior to joining Reuters Piotr worked as a radio journalist in Poland – editing and presenting news and morning information review on Radio Free Europe. Born in Lodz, Poland, Piotr received a Master’s Degree in International Economics from Warsaw School of Economics and also studied at Bocconi University in Milan. He holds a Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) Master’s Degree in International Management from Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is married and has two boys.

Pieter Boone started his career in 1992 as store manager with the wholesaler Makro, a subsidiary of the Dutch company SHV and a former partner company of METRO Cash & Carry. Mr.Boone held various senior positions at Makro in Asia and South America, before he joined Metro Cash & Carry Russia as Operations Director in January 2011. Since April 1st 2012 Pieter Boone was appointed as Managing Director Metro Cash & Carry Russia.

Before joining the MDM Bank Board of Directors in 2007, Oleg headed the Federal Financial Markets Service of the Russian Federation, a position he had held since 2004.Between 1999 and 2002 he was Executive Vice-President at Troika Dialog, Russia’s oldest investment company. Oleg has also held a variety of senior positions within the Russian government, including First Deputy Minister of Finance, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia, and extraordinary advisor to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.After graduating from the department of mechanics and mathematics at Moscow State University in 1974, Oleg successfully defended his PhD in physics and mathematics at the same university in 1977.

Petko Draganov assumed his functions as the Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD on 1 May 2009 following his appointment by the UN Secretary-General. Born on 25 January 1958 in Cairo, Egypt. He received his M.A. in International Law at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. Mr. Draganov started his diplomatic career in the Information Department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1985 to 1998 he worked largely on African affairs, serving in the Bulgarian Embassies in Ghana and Zimbabwe and in the African Department of the Foreign Ministry. From 1993 to 1998 he was Ambassador to South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. In 1998 Mr. Draganov was appointed as the Permanent Representative of Bulgaria to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva. He served as President of the Conference on Disarmament from August to December 2000. From 2001 to 2005 Mr. Draganov held the position of First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. He was in charge of multilateral diplomacy, development, disarmament and European integration issues. He also served as the Chairman of the National Commission on UNESCO, Alternate Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the UN Security Council and Special Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE to Moldova. Mr. Draganov served a second term as Bulgaria's Permanent Representative in Geneva from 2005 to 2008. In 2008 he was the President of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board.

Nikolai Petrovich Nikolaev, Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on natural resources, property and land tenure Born April 2, 1970, Moscow Graduated from St John the Theologian Orthodox Institute (The Russian Orthodox Church), majoring in religious studies. 1988 - 1990 - military service in the Soviet Army; 1991 - 1994 – an entrepreneur; 1994 - 1999 – сorrespondent for "The Business Vestnik Vostoka", Financial Times East-European Insurance Report: correspondent for Central Asia, correspondent for CIS countries, for "The Company" magazine; 1999 - 2001 - Progress-Garant Insurance Company, Head of Division, Head of Department, Advisor to the President of the Insurance Group; 2002 - All-Russian Union of Insurers, Head of PR Department; 2002 - 2003 - Insurance Company "Russia", Deputy General Director; 2003 - founded the communication group "AMSKOM"; 2008 - together with like-minded people created St Spyridon of Trimythous charitable foundation; 2010 - Member of the Presidium of non-commercial partnership “OPORA”; 2011 - Director of the Foundation for the Development of Socio-Informational Projects "United Society"; 2013 - Vice-President of the NGO "OPORA RUSSIA"; 2014 - Head of the All-Russia People’s Front Center for Independent Monitoring of the execution of the May decrees of the President of the Russian Federation "People's Expertise". Nikolai P. Nikolaev was awarded the medal "For Services to the Home Affairs Department", gratitude of the Department of Economic Development of the Russian Federation for achievements in the implementation of the state policy on small and medium-sized businesses development. He is married and has three children.

Mr. Polyakov is responsible for the establishment of the Agency’s regional infrastructure, building and supporting effective interaction with the regional government authorities, institutions providing state support for exports, industry-specific and professional associations of entrepreneurs and Russian financial organizations. Mr. Polyakov began his professional career in 1995 as a specialist in banking information technologies. He later worked at Sberbank of Russia and spent more than 8 years in the Client Relations Department of Vnesheconombank and several commercial banks where he was responsible for regional and retail business. From 2009 to 2012, he was in charge of ensuring financial support for a pilot project by Russian Railways to outsource non-core types of activities in the operating domain of Oktyabrskaya Railways – a branch of Russian Railways, and he worked at the INTER RAO UES group prior to joining EXIAR. Andrey Polyakov has an MBA in finances and banks that he received at the State University – Higher School of Economics.

Current academic titles and positions 1. Professor of Neurosurgery, Doctor of Medicine 2. Academician at the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS 3. Director of the FSAE N.N. Burdenko Scientific Research Neurosurgery Institute under the Russian Ministry of Healthcare 4. Member of the Science and Education Board under Russian President 5. Academic Secretary at the Russian Neurosurgery Association 6. Co-Chairman of the Nerve Injury Committee, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) 7. Honoured Worker of Science in the Russian Federation 8. Honoured member of the Austrian Society of Neurosurgery 9. Corresponding member, German Academy of Neurosurgery 10. Member, Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine 11. Member of the Bureau, RFBR Council 12. Member of the Advisory Panel for Assessment of New Pharmaceutical and Medical Products, Methods of Diagnostics, Prevention and Treatment under FASO Russia Services and Honours 1. Medal “For Labour Valour” (1990) 2. State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995) 3. Order of Honour (1998) 4. Russian Government Prize (2006) 5. Order For Merit to the Fatherland IV class (2008) 6. State Prize of the Russian Federation (2009) 7. The “High Calling” prize for best physicians of Russia (2013)

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.

Peter Y. Tarasov was born in Moscow. In1992 he graduated with honors from the historical faculty of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov, in 1998 – Finance Academy under the RF Government (speciality – “Banking”). 1992 - 1995 - RIA Novosti Information Agency, senior editor. 1995 - 1998 - Administration of the RF President, advisor. 1998 - 2000 -Representative office of the Irkutsk Oblast administration under the RF Government, chief of the economics department. 2000 - 2004 - Ministryof Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Department of economic development and cooperation with international financial institutions, Head of section. 2004 - 2006 - ZAO System Projects, Vice-president. 2006 - 2008 - First Republican Bank OJSC, Deputy President-Chairman of the Board. 2009 - 2011 - SME Bank OJSC (till April 2011 – Russian Bank for Development), Director of Investment Operations Department. InSeptember 2011 was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Board of SME Bank. Class 1 State Advisor of the Russian Federation. Supervises implementation of the Bank’s Program “Financing for Innovations and Modernization”, development of new business areas and coordinates operations of subsidiaries of SME Bank.

In 1993 graduated as a lawyer from the Tyumen State University with a degree in "Jurisprudence", in 1997 graduated as an Economist with a degree in "Finance and Credit". Ph.D in Economics. 1994 to 1995 - Acting Director of the Yamal-Nenets branch of the West Siberian Commercial Bank (Zapsibkombank). 1995 to 1997 - Director of the Yamal-Nenets branch of Zapsibkombank. 1997 to 1998 - Vice-president of the Bank and Director of the Salekhard branch of Zapsibkombank. 1998 to 1998 – the First Vice-President of Zapsibkombank, President of Zapsibkombank. 2001 appointed as a Vice-Governor of the Tyumen region. 2005 - Head of the Tyumen city. Since November 2005 - Governor of the Tyumen region. 2010 – The Tyumen Regional Duma vested powers of the Governor of the Tyumen region in him for the following five years on the proposal of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. 2014 - Acting Governor of the Tyumen region. Since September 2014 - Governor of the Tyumen region.