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Dmitry Peskov was born in Voronezh in 1975. In 1998 graduated from Voronezh State University. In 1999 received an MA in political science from the University of Manchester. Since 2000 worked at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, was responsible for university development strategy. Left the university at the position of the Innovations Director, Deputy Vice-President on science. In 2008 created Metaver, a company that designs new education forms on the suture of education and venture economics. In 2009 became head of Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy. In 2011 became the Director on Young Professionals Direction at Agency for Strategic Initiatives. Member-Expert Council of Government of Russia. Member of the board of trustees of the agency on professional development WorldSkills Russia. Member of the council of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on development of young, innovative and small entrepreneurial activity. Head of the work group on Best Professional Practices Support at the Presidential Professional Qualifications Council. Member of the commission on 2020 Innovation Strategy implementation. He is on the Board of Directors at Aeroflot-Russian Airlines PJSC, RVK PSC, boards of trustees for Saint Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and Support Foundation for Visually and Hearing Impaired. Holds various state awards, including the Order ”For Merit to the Fatherland”, 2nd Degree.

Alexander is the leader of EY Russia. He is actively involved in the work of the Foreign Investment Advisory Council in Russia. At the 2007 World Economic Forum, Alexander was entered in the list of Young Global Leaders, and in 2009 he was included in the top 100 young leaders in the Russian Presidential Reserve. He is vice president of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Russia. Alexander is a member of the Expert Council of the Open Innovations Forum, the Executive Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, the Organizing Committee of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the Public Council of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. He leads the National Business Initiative’s road map Improving the quality of the regulatory environment for business. Alexander supervises the Entrepreneur of the Year program in Russia. Alexander has over twenty years of experience in strategic development, client service and government and corporate affairs. He is a graduate of Moscow State Linguistic University (1991) and has an EMBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2003).

Konstantin Korotov is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Leadership Development Research at ESMT – European School of Management and Technology in Berlin, Germany. With over 18 years of executive development experience, he is a pioneer in the field of corporate education in Russia, and one of the first Russians to become a global executive educator. Prof. Korotov’s research focuses on management and leadership development, executive education, and executive coaching. He has published five books and dozens of academic and practitioner articles and book chapters, as well as opinion pieces and commentaries in leading business magazines and newspapers. His portfolio of corporate education programs includes, among others, Deutsche Bank, Lufthansa, Deutsche Telekom, RWE, E.On, Ernst & Young, Johnson & Johnson, Russian Railroads, Rosatom, Axel Springer, Xerox, Thyssen Krupp, Hyatt International, Qatar Telekom, etc. He holds a PhD from INSEAD, Master’s degrees from INSEAD and NYU, and an undergraduate degree from Moscow Linguistic University. Korotov participates in the session on “Growing Talent” Global Education for Russian Entrepreneurs and Officials”.

Edward Crawley is the President of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech). He received an S.B. and an S.M. in aeronautics and astronautics and an Sc.D. in aerospace structures (1981), all from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His recent research has focused on the architecture, design, and decision support in complex technical systems. He is currently working with the NASA to design human exploration and earth observing systems. Professor Crawley has served as chairman of the NASA Technology and Commercialization Advisory Committee, as a member of the NASA Advisory Committee and the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign. From 2003 to 2006, he was the Executive Director of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a joint venture with Cambridge University; the institute’s mission was to understand and generalize how universities can act effectively as engines of innovation and economic growth. Previously, from 1996 to 2003, he was head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. In 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Orbital Sciences Corporation (ORB). He is founder of ACX, a product development and manufacturing firm; BioScale that develops biomolecular detectors; Dataxu, a company in internet advertising matching; Ekotrope that supplies energy portfolio analysis to businesses and consumers. Professor Crawley has won numerous teaching awards, and in 1992, he was elected a member of the first class of MacVicar Faculty Fellows at MIT. He was awarded the NASA Public Service Medal. He has served as founding co-director of an international collaboration on the reform of engineering education. For his work in CDIO, he received the 2011 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering Education from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Professor Crawley is a Fellow of the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and Royal Aeronautical Society (UK) and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science, the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), and the National Academy of Engineering (US). He is the author of numerous papers. Prof. Crawley (who is conversant in Russian) has spent time as a visitor at the Moscow Aviation Institute, as well as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, and Cambridge University.

Born March 1, 1980 In 2001, Ivan received a degree in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Aerophysics and Space Research Department of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Between 2006 and 2008, he took an MBA course in Financial Management at Graduate School of International Business of the Russian Academy of National Economy. In 2000, Ivan joined RUSLAN Communications, where he held various positions and was directly involved in the development of the AutoTracker vehicle tracking system. In 2005, he co-founded Russian Navigation Technologies, RUSLAN Communications’ successor, and became its Commercial Director. Since 2008, Ivan Nechayev has served as Executive Director with Russian Navigation Technologies. He has also been a Member of the Management Board of Russian Venture Company Seed Fund since 2009.