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Was born in 1965.

He graduated from Krasnoznamenny Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of Defence with a degree in linguistics. He also holds a degree in Finance and Credit from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, and an MBA from the Moscow International Higher Business School (MIRBIS).

His prior experience includes:

1990 — 1992 — the Permanent Mission of the USSR to UNESCO in France

1992 — 1995 — held senior positions in the Russian Fund of Industry and Investments and international accounting firm Deloitte & Touche

1995 — 2000 — worked in the military industrial sector as a General Director of the Defence Systems managing company

2000 — 2005 — Head of interstate financial and industrial group Defence Systems established by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation and the agreement between the governments of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

2005 — 2010 — Deputy CEO at Interros

2005 — 2007 — member of the Board of Directors, then Chairman of the Board of Directors at Power Machines

2006 — 2008 — member of the Board of Directors at Plug Power Inc. (USA)

2007 — 2008 — member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Polyus Gold

2008 — CEO and Chairman of the Management Board at MMC Norilsk Nickel

2009 — 2013 — Vice President at Interros Holding Company

2009 — member of the Board of Directors at WGC-3

2009 — 2011 — Chairman of the Board of Directors at Roza Khutor

2009 — 2015 — member of the Board of Directors at Kontinental Hockey League

2013 — 2020 — Senior Vice President for Sales, Procurement, and Innovation at MMC Norilsk Nickel

2018 — currently — Member of the Board of Directors at Kontinental Hockey League

2019 — currently — Member of the Board of Directors at Jokerit Hockey Club Oy

2019 — currently — Chairman of the Presidium of the Night Hockey League Amateur Hockey Foundation

Honors:

Order of Honour (by decree of the President of the Russian Federation)
Order of Friendship (by decree of the President of the Russian Federation)
Order of St Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church, Grade III
Order of St Seraphim of Sarov of the Russian Orthodox Church, Grade III
Certificate of Honour from the President of the Russian Federation
Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in science and technology

Born in 1957.
Graduated with honors from the faculty of automation and computer engineering of the Moscow Railway Transport Engineering Institute (MIIT).
In 1990 Viktor Vekselberg founded Renova, an asset management company. Mr. Vekselberg currently holds office as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of companies.
In 1996 he founded SUAL Group and served as its President until 2003 when he eventually chaired the Board of Directors of the Group.
Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Tumen Oil Company from 2002 until 2003. Member of the Board of Directors of TNK-BP from 2003 until 2013.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Company Rusal (UC Rusal) from 2007 until March 2012.
In March 2010, Viktor Vekselberg was appointed as Head of the Skolkovo Innovation Center project. Viktor Vekselberg has been President of the Skolkovo Foundation since June 2010.

Prior to becoming CEO of RDIF in 2011, Kirill Dmitriev headed a number of large private equity funds and completed a series of landmark transactions, including the sale of Delta Bank to General Electric, Delta Credit Bank to Société Générale, STS Media to Fidelity Investments, etc. At the beginning of his career he worked at Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Company. He is Deputy Chairman of the Investment Council under the Chairman of the State Duma of Russia, Vice President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and was appointed by the President of Russia as a member of the BRICS and the APEC business councils; he also was selected as ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. He serves as a member of the boards of directors of Rostelecom, Gazprombank, MDMG, Russian Railways and a member of the boards of trustees of the Mariinsky Theatre and Moscow State University.
In 2011 he was the only Russian representative in the list of ‘100 most influential private equity professionals of the decade’ (Private Equity International). He holds a BA in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University and an MBA with High Distinction (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business School.

Chairman of the Board of the State Company Russian Highways
Higher education: Leningrad Institute of Civil Engineering, Civil Engineer, 1981
Employment History
1983 - 1988 Master, foreman, senior foreman. Lendorstroy Trust
1988 - 1990 Secretary of the Party Committee, Lendorstroy Trust
1990 - 2006 Deputy Chief Engineer, Chief Builder, First Deputy CEO - Chief Engineer, CEO of Lendorstroy JSC
2006 - 2014 First Deputy CEO for Construction, CEO, Director of the Federal State Government Institution St. Petersburg Bypass Construction Office of the Federal Road Agency
2014 - 2015 Deputy Transport Minister for the Republic of Crimea
2015 Advisor to the Head of the Federal Road Agency
2015 - 2018 Head of the Central Russia Federal Highway Administration Federal Road Agency Federal Budget-Funded Institution (Tsentravtomagistral FBFI)
On February 6, 2019, appointed Chairman of the Board of the State Company Russian Highways
Awards: badge of the Honorary Builder of Russia, Medal for Construction of Transport Facilities and other.

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski was born in Yerevan in 1944. His father, Boris Borisovich Piotrovski, an eminent archaeologist, was Director of The State Hermitage Museum from 1964 till 1990.
In 1967 graduated with honors from the Oriental Faculty of Leningrad State University, specializing in Arabic Studies. Underwent a study course at the Cairo University in 1965-1966. From 1967 to 1991 Mikhail Borisovich worked in the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, where he obtained his doctorate in history. In 1991 was invited to join the Hermitage staff as the First Deputy Director. In July 1992 he was appointed Director of the Museum by a decree of the Prime Minister.
Dr. Piotrovski has taken part in archaeological excavations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and Yemen. He is an author of more than 250 works including catalogues of Arabic manuscripts, publications of Medieval monuments and ancient inscriptions, works on Islamic political history and Arabic culture, archeology of Arabia. Among them: series of articles devoted to the Muslim mythology in The Encyclopedia of World Mythology, series of articles about the prophet Muhammad and the monographs: The Legend of the Himyarite King As'ad al-Kamil (1977), Fundamentals of Arab-Islamic Art (1984), Southern Arabia in the Early Middle Ages (1985), Yemen before Islam and in the First Centuries of the Hijra (1987), Tales of the Koran (1991), Islam: An Encyclopaedia (a co-author, 1991). The Hermitage: Essays on the History of the Collection (a co-author, 1997); Earthy Art - Heavenly Beauty. Art of Islam (an editor, 2000); On Islamic Art (2001), The Great Collections of the Great Museum. The Hermitage (2003); The Hermitage in the Great Museums of the World series (2003); The Historical Legends of the Koran (2005), The Islamic Art. Between China and Europe (2008), The View from the Hermitage (2009, 2014), The Two Holy Sites Regained. Futuh al-Haramayn (2011), My Hermitage in Russian and English (2014, 2015), For Museums There Are No Taboos (2016).
Dr. Piotrovski is an author and a presenter of a TV series My Hermitage shown on the State Russian TV channel (250 series), My Hermitage – 250 (30 series), an author of the regular column The View from the Hermitage in the Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti newspaper (two books of these articles have been issued).
Dr. Piotrovski is Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Arts. A member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Culture and Art (in 2001 – 2011 was a Deputy Chairman of the Council) and the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Science and Education.
Professor of the St. Petersburg State University, were he chairs two departments - “Museology” and “Ancient Orient History”, a Dean of Oriental faculty. Honorary Doctor of the Kazan State University, Honorary Doctor of the Saratov State University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the European University in St. Petersburg.
Foreign member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute, corresponding member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President of the Union of Museums of Russia, editor-in-chief of The Christian Orient magazine, the chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Imperial Russian Orthodox Palestine Society. President of the Worldwide Club of St. Petersburgers, chairman of the board of the 1st State TV channel (2001 – 2005).
In 2011 elected to the State Duma, gave up his mandate.
Has been awarded the Netherlands Order of Orange-Nassau (1996), the Russian Order of Honor (1997), the French Order of the Légion d'Honneur (1998, 2004), the Swedish Order of the Northern Star (1999), the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000, 2004), the Order of Saint Mesrop (Armenian Apostle Church, 2000), the Order of Yaroslav the Wise (Ukraine, 2003), the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (2004), the Order of Service to the Fatherland (Russia, 2004, 2009), the Order of Honor Al-Fahr (the Council of Muftis of Russia, 2005), the Order of the Lion of Finland (2005); the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan, 2007); the Silver Medal of Amsterdam (2009); Woodrow Wilson Award, USA (2009); the Order of the Crown (Kingdom of Belgium, 2011); medal of Anatoliy Koni (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, 2013), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (Russia, 2014); the Order of Merit for science and Arts (Austria, 2014), the Order of Service to the Republic of Tatarstan (2014), the Order of Francysk Skaryna (Belarus, 2014), the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (2015), the Order of Friendship (2016), the Medal of Argishti the First (Armenia, 2016).
In 2003 Mikhail Piotrovsky has been awarded the Presidential Prize in the Field of Art and Literature (Russia, 2003). In 2017 has been awarded the State Prize of Russia for his contribution to the preservation of national and world cultural heritage.
Winner of the public award "Sky Line".
In 1997 a minor planet was named “Piotrovski” by the Astronomical Union in joint honor of Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski and his father Boris Borisovich Piotrovski.
In May, 2011 Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovski was awarded the title of Honored Citizen of Saint Petersburg.
Mikhail Borisovich is married, has two children.

Alexey Rakhmanov was born on July 18, 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Polytechnic Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. In 2003 he graduated from the School of Business at the University of Chicago with a degree of Master of Business Administration. In the early stages of his career, he held various positions in the public and private entities. In 1996 he joined international auditing and consulting firm Ernst & Young where he worked until 2002. Between 2002 and 2008 he served as Director for Strategy and Business Development at JSC Severstal-Auto. In July 2008 he was appointed Director of the Department of Automotive Industry and Agricultural Machinery at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, and in March 2012 – Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade. Since June 2014 he has been President of the United Shipbuilding Corporation.
Alexey Rakhmanov is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University (SPbSMTU), Chairman of the Shipbuilding Industry and Marine Equipment Committee of the Russian Engineering Union, Member of the Russian Engineering Union Management Board.

Anatoly V. Torkunov is the Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). He holds an MA and two doctoral degrees in History and Political Science.
Prof. Anatoly V. Torkunov is a leading expert on Russian foreign policy, regional subsystems in Asia-Pacific Region and North-Eastern Asia, history of Korea, history of diplomacy. He is the author of more than 200 publications, including 9 individual monographs. Several of them were published in the USA, South Korea, Japan, Poland and other countries.
Professor Torkunov also holds positions of the Chairman of the Russia-UN Association; President of the Russian International Studies Association; Member of the Academic Council at the Security Council of Russia; Member of the Board of the Russian Diplomatic Association; Chairman of the Curricula Development Association of Russian Schools of International Relations, Co-Chairman of Russian-Polish Group on Difficult Matters, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Russian Channel One.

1993 - 2004 - the Committee for education of St. Petersburg.
2004 - 2008-Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation.
2008 - 2012-first Vice-rector at the Moscow Institute of steel and alloys.
2012 – Chairman of the education Committee of St. Petersburg.
2012 - 2013 - Deputy Minister of education of the Russian Federation.
2013 - 2016 - the First Deputy Minister of education of the Russian Federation.
2016 - 2018 – Deputy General Director of SGM.
2018 – First Vice President Of Gazprombank.
Member Of the Board of the Russian bar Association
Education.
In 1997-graduated from St. Petersburg state University, faculty of law.
In 2002-graduated from the North-West Academy of public service, specialty: state and municipal management.
In 2016, the Corporate University of Sberbank
PhD in law.
Awards, honorary titles.
Included in the personnel reserve of the President of the Russian Federation.
She was awarded the badge " Honorary work.