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Ekaterina Trofimova is the Chief Executive Officer of Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA, Russia) appointed at its foundation in November 2015. Prior to this from September 2011, Ms. Trofimova worked in Gazprombank (Russia), namely as a Member of the Management Board and supervised the Ratings Advisory Centre, the Centre for Economic Forecasting and the Corporate Communications Department. From June 2000 to July 2011, Ms. Trofimova worked as a financial analyst, Director and Head of Standard & Poor's Russia and CIS Financial Institutions Rating Group (Paris, France). In S&P, Ms. Trofimova had a leading role in developing and updating the financial institution rating methodology. Apart from working on analysis of the major financial institutions, she was actively involved in the company's strategy generation and human resources management in the region. Ms. Trofimova graduated from the International Economics department of St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance in 1998 and the Finance and Tax Administration department of the University of Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 2000.

Alexander Afanasiev has been Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of Moscow Exchange since June 2012. Prior to joining Moscow Exchange, he spent 13 years at Bank WestLB Vostok, a subsidiary of the German banking group WestLB AG, most recently as a Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board. Prior to his work at WestLB, Mr Afanasiev was an Executive Board member of Bank Imperial. From 2005 to 2011 Mr Afanasiev was Chairman of the MICEX FX Market Council. From 2009 to 2013 he co-chaired the National Foreign Exchange Association and from 2011 to 2014 the National Securities Market Association. Mr Afanasiev has been working in the Russian financial sector since 1991. He worked at the Bank of Russia earlier in his career, and was among the founders of the Russian Project Finance Bank, the first investment bank with foreign capital in Russia. He subsequently served as Executive Director of this bank. Alexander Afanasiev graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute with a degree in international economic relations and holds a PhD in economics.

Born on 4 October 1964 in Moscow. 1986: graduated from Moscow Institute of Finance as an economist. 1986: started working as an economist in the Office of financing Social Security of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1987: economist for the Office of Financing Health and Welfare of the USSR Ministry of Finance.1988: worked as senior economist in Division of funding for Social Development the Ministry of Finance. 1988 – 1989: served in the Soviet Army.1989: held various posts in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.1994: appointed Deputy Head of the General Office of the Federal Treasury, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.July 1999 - July 2008: worked for the Government of the Russian Federation.17 July 2008: appointed Chairman of the Management Board of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. Awarded the Order of Honour with the title of “Honoured economist of the RF”. Married with a daughter and a son.

Previously held positions: July 2012 – present time: Deputy Finance Minister September 2010 – July 2012: Head of Macroeconomy Analysis at VTB Capital 2004-2010: Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Research and Chief Economist, Renaissance Capital. 2001-2004: Chief Economist, Renaissance Capital. 1998-2001: Senior Sovereign Strategist, Emerging Markets Research, Fixed Income Department, BNP Paribas London 1995-1996: Senior Economist, Department for Foreign Exchange Regulations and Controls, Central Bank of the Russian Federation 2011: Ranked 2nd for Russian macroeconomy in Thomson Reuters Extel Survey 2011 and 3rd in “Economics” category in Institutional Investor 2011 All-Russia investor survey. 2004-2009: Ranked best analyst in at least one fixed income category in each of the Institutional Investor All-Russia Research Surveys. 2006: Ranked Top 3 economist in Emerging Europe in the Institutional Investor Emerging EMEA Research Team Report. Alexey graduated with honours (Beta Gamma Sigma) and received Master of Business Administration from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, USA. He graduated with honours from the State Academy of Management, Moscow, Russia, in International Economics.

Born on May 29, 1974 in Leningrad. In 1997 graduated from Saint-Petersburg State Technical University; in 2000 graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the MFA of Russia. In 2000-2003 had been working in various positions (leading specialist, main specialist, consultant of the department) of Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. 2003-2006 - Vice President of Investment Bank Trust JSC. 2006-2010 - Vice President, Director of Department of Renaissance Capital LLC - Financial Advisor. 2010-2012 - Head of Department, Head of Office of VTB Capital. 2012-2013 - Deputy Director of the Department of Economy and Finance of the Government of the Russian Federation. Since September 24, 2013 - Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He traveled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His latest memoir Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets was published in February 2013.

David Staples is a Managing Director in the EMEA Corporate Finance Group with Moody’s Investors Service based in Dubai. His responsibilities include managing the analytical teams and research initiatives relating to Moody’s coverage of corporates in the Emerging Europe, Turkey, Middle East and Africa regions where Moody’s has offices in Moscow, Dubai and Johannesburg as well as EMEA-based natural resources and chemical companies. David was promoted to Managing Director in Moody’s London office in 2004 and covered a wide range of industry sectors and regions prior to assuming broader responsibility for Emerging Market corporates and relocating to Dubai in 2011. David is a frequent speaker at conferences and regularly represents Moody’s for broadcast media interviews on credit and market developments in the sectors he manages. A Canadian citizen, David has a masters degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Pavel Teplukhin joined Deutsche Bank on October 1, 2012. Pavel was among the co-founders of Troika Dialog in 1991; from 1996 till 2010 he headed Troika Dialog Management Company, primarily in the position of the President, and later as Chairman of the Board. Pavel Teplukhin has played a key role in creating the securities market and collective investment industry in Russia, as well as the private banking industry. He is a mastermind and co-author of the Russian pension system reform. He took part in launching the first Russian-focused U.S. mutual fund in 1996, established the first stock Unit Investment Fund (UIF) in Russian in 1997, the first market real property UIF, the first life insurance UIF, and he managed 4 of the 5 major pension funds. Pavel is Chairman of the Strategy Committee of the Board of Directors in Rusnano, Member of the Board of Directors of Rusnano Management Company LLC, Member of the Boards of Directors of OJSC Rusnano, and Member of the Board at WTC Moscow. Pavel Teplukhin graduated from the London School of Economics and Moscow State University.

Born: 27 December 1970; Moscow. Education: 1993: Graduated from the M.V.Lomonosov Moscow StateUniversity (economics-mathematics). Speaks English. 1988–1993: student of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. 1993–1996: economist of the 2nd category, senior economist, chief of the section with the International Finance Division of the Bank of Russia Foreign Operations Department. 1996–2001: deputy head, head of the Ost-West Handelsbank AG representative office, Moscow. 2001–2003: director of the Bank of Russia Open Market Operations Department. 2003–2011: director of the Bank of Russia Market Operations Department. 2011–2013: Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia. From September 1, 2013 to March 2, 2014: First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia — Head of the Bank of Russia Financial Markets Service. From March 3, 2014: First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia. Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (since 18 October 2013).

Alexei Yakovitsky, one of the pioneers of VTB Capital, has been working at the company since its early days in 2008. He is responsible for the strategic and operational development of VTB Capital holding companies. Alexei moved to VTB Capital from Deutsche Bank, where he worked as Head of Research for Russia and the CIS. Prior to that, he was co-Head and then Head of Research at leading Russian investment bank United Financial Group (UFG), which was acquired by Deutsche Bank in 2006. Alexei had joined UFG in 2000 as a telecommunications analyst, after a stint as the Moscow Telecommunications and IT correspondent with Bridge News. Institutional Investor rated Alexei one of the top three Russian telecom analysts four years in a row (2004-08), while in 2007 the organisers of the Financial Olympus named Alexei the best analyst on the Russian market. The telecoms team headed by Alexei took first place in EMEA emerging markets in Extel’s 2005, 2006 and 2007 surveys. Alexei holds an MA in Political Science from the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy in the U.S. and a PhD in History from Moscow State University.