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Geoff Cutmore anchors CNBC’s flagship Squawk Box programme in EMEA. The three hour show, which broadcasts worldwide five days a week, bookends the opening of European equity markets and is a must see for financial professionals, C-suite executives and investors. Cutmore is one of CNBC’s most experienced presenters, with more than 15 years dedicated to financial broadcasting. He has anchored programmes for CNBC in both Europe and Asia, having spent a number of years working in Hong Kong. Cutmore covers the most important senior business gatherings for CNBC including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos and China and the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he has interviewed the world’s top CEOs, economists and political leaders. He has reported on the most important issues facing the global economy today and has also led special programming on Central and Eastern Europe, climate change and the global energy challenge. Cutmore is a contributor to business and finance magazines including the Economist, Investors Chronicle and Money Market. His first book on the markets, New Market Mavericks, was well received.

Alexey Kudrin is currently Dean of School of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University. Since May 2000 till September 2011 he served as Finance Minister of Russia. His financial policies received international recognition; he was named "Finance Minister of the Year 2004" by The Banker magazine and "Finance Minister of the Year 2010" by Euromoney magazine. In years 2000-2003 and 2008-2011 Alexei Kudrin also held the post of Deputy Prime-Minister. In 2005 he was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.Before joining the government, Alexei Kudrin worked for Saint-Petersburg City government, holding positions of Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg and Chairman of the Committee for Economy and Finances.Alexei Kudrin has academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD in Economics). He is professor, author of more than 30 research papers and articles on economics and finance, delivering lectures in many universities and colleges around the globe and providing his expertise to the government of Russia.

Date of birth: June 8, 1954. Place of birth: Olevsk, Zhitomir Region, Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic. Education: graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1981. Major: international economic relations. Qualification: international currency and credit relations. Degrees: PhD in Economics. Awards and merits: 2000: Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II class, medal. 2006: Honorable mention by the President of the Russian Federation. 2007: Order of Friendship. Command of foreign languages: fluent in English and French. Background: 09.1971 – 10.1972: shipper, Krasnodar refinery. 11.1972 – 11.1974: served in the Soviet Army. 01.1975 – 08.1976: transport operator, II category, Construction Department, Glavmospromstroy’s Enterprise 207: Mosstroy 29. 09.1976 – 07.1981: studied in Moscow State Institute of International Relations. 08.1981 – 11.1988: junior research associate and senior research associate, Institute of World Economy and International Relations. 12.1988 – 02.1992: Second Secretary, USSR Permanent Mission to the UN and other international organizations, USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 02.1992 – 08.1994: Second Secretary and Senior Officer, Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN and other international organizations, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 08.1994 – 04.1998: Deputy Head of Foreign credit and Debt Division, Head of Department, Ministry of Finance. 04.1998 – 09.2004: Deputy Chairman, Vnesheconombank of the USSR. 09.2004 – 10.2005: Director, Department of International Financial Relations, State Debt and State Financial Assets, Ministry of Finance. 11.2005 – till present: Deputy Minister of Finance.

Ksenia Valentinovna Yudaeva has served as a First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia since September 2013 and was appointed to the Central Bank's Board in October 2013. At the Bank of Russia she is responsible for international relations, macroeconomic forecasting and research and previously oversaw domestic monetary policy. Dr. Yudaeva came to the Bank after spending one year as Chief of the Presidential Experts' Directorate of the RF Presidential Administration, where she was also Russia's Sherpa to the G20 during the Russian presidency. Prior to her government service, Dr. Yudaeva was Chief Economist and Director of the Center for Macroeconomic Research at Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, from 2008 to 2012. She has held positions at several think-tanks in Russia, including Academic Director of the Center for Strategic Research and Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Dr. Yudaeva earned a degree in Economics and Mathematics from the Moscow State University, a Master's degree in Economics from the New Economic School and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.