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Roger Munnings is a member of the Boards of Directors of Sistema and of LUKoil. On both Boards he has the status of Independent Director. He chairs the Board Human Resources Committee of LUKoil and the Board Audit, Finance and Risk Management Committee of Sistema. He has also been an Independent Director of SUEK. Mr Munnings has been actively involved in the Russian business world since the mid nineties He is currently Chairman of the Russo British Chamber of Commerce, having been Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of the Association of European Businesses in Russia, a member of the Board of the US Russia Business Council, Chairman of the Audit Committee Institute in Russia and a member of the UK Government’s working group on trade and investment between Russia and Great Britain. Roger’s principal career was, from 1974 to 2008, with the international “Big Four” accounting, consulting and auditing firm, KPMG, where he was Chairman and President of KPMG Russia and the CIS from 1996 to 2008 living with his family in Moscow throughout that time, Chairman of KPMG’s Global Energy and Natural Resources Practice from 1993 to 2008 and a member of KPMG’s International Council, the senior governance body of the international firm from 1998 to 2008. Roger is also a member of the Russian National Council on Corporate Governance, the Russian Institute of Directors and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and was part of RSPP’s Task Force in preparation for the G20/B20 meetings in St Petersburg in 2013. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in the UK and a Graduate of Oxford University with the degree of Master of Arts in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Roger was appointed CBE in the UK in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List in 2007.

Dan Brindle currently serves as GlaxoSmithKline’s Vice President of Government Affairs (Emerging Markets, Australasia, China and Japan) and is head of the company’s Global Patient Advocacy team. Since 1999, he has held number of leadership roles with Eli Lilly and Company, Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, including commercial operations / country management, and government affairs and public policy. He has spent the majority of his career based in Asia, including assignments in Beijing, Hong Kong and Singapore. He was involved in the creation of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Life Sciences Initiative, and has continued to stay involved with the APEC process as an industry adviser and participant throughout his career in the pharmaceutical industry. In this time, he has had the opportunity to counsel governments across the Emerging Markets around healthcare policy and development issues, and was involved in the formation of the Thai Center for Excellence in the Life Sciences (T-CELS), a government body created to foster innovation and investment in the life sciences sector in Thailand. An American attorney licensed before the State Bar of California, Dan previously served as Legislative Counsel and close personal advisor to former United States Senator Frank H. Murkowski (Alaska) from 1996 – 1999, and was involved in a wide range of international foreign policy and energy issues, as well as domestic policies impacting healthcare, finance and Native American issues. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and currently resides in Singapore.

Andrei Bougrov is a Deputy CEO, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel and Member of its Management Board. He also served as Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel and was Senior Managing Director of Interros Holding Company. Prior to that in 1993-2002 Mr. Bougrov was Russia’s Principal Resident Representative and Executive Director at the World Bank. Before joining the World Bank Mr. Bougrov was a senior staff member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He received a BA and a Master’s Degree with first class honors from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, completed post-graduate studies and received a Ph.D. in economics.

He spent a career working in public office and business. Previous roles in government included positions in the British Prime Minister’s office as Director of Strategic Communications in 2005-07, as well as periods as a Special Adviser in the Department of Trade & Industry and the Cabinet Office. Work in business included time as a senior executive at the Guardian newspaper. Co-founded a digital media business in Russia in 2007 which was subsequently merged with Rambler in 2013. In his current role he advises multinational companies on business development opportunities in international markets, including Russia and the CIS. He has written in the international media on political and economic affairs. He is based in London and travels to Russia on a regular basis.

Charles was a Member of Parliament for 14 years during which time he held several positions including Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party and Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. He is a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh, President of the British Institute of Energy Economics, President of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board and President of the British Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan. Full professional background: Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, 2010-2012 Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, 2012-2015; UK Commissioner General for Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan President, Russo-British Chamber of Commerce; President, British Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan; Visiting Professor, Energy Finance, University of Edinburgh; President, British Institute of Energy Economics; Chairman, Forewind Consortium; Chairman, Global Interconnectors Group.