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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.

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.

Родился в 1967 г. в г. Москве; окончил экономический факультет МГУ им. М. В. Ломоносова (1991). Служил в армии (1986-1988). Женат, трое детей. Начал свою профессиональную карьеру на научной работе, в Институте проблем рынка РАН. Кандидат экономических наук (1994). В 1997-2000 гг. — начальник отдела международных финансовых рынков Министерства финансов, помощник министра финансов. В 2000-2004 гг.— помощник, заместитель руководителя секретариата Председателя Правительства РФ, заместитель руководителя Аппарата Правительства РФ. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса. В 2004-2005 гг. – старший советник банка Morgan Stanley. С 2005 г.– главный аналитик ООО «МК Аналитика». С 2008 года - на экономическом факультете МГУ. С 2012 года доцент, с 2014 года – директор центра исследования экономической политики, с 2015 года – заместитель декана.

Drew J. Guff is a Managing Director and founding principal of Siguler Guff & Company, LP. Siguler Guff is a global multi-strategy private equity firm managing over $10.0 billion in domestic and international private equity assets on behalf of corporate and public employee benefit plans, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, family offices and high net worth individuals. In 1995, Drew Guff and George Siguler acquired the private equity arm of PaineWebber to form Siguler Guff. Mr. Guff launched one of the first private equity funds in Russia, Russia Partners Company, LP, in 1994. In 2005, Siguler Guff launched its first BRIC fund-of-funds dedicated to investing directly, and together with private equity firms, in the BRIC markets. Mr. Guff is a member of the Executive Board of the U.S.-Russia Business Council as well as a board member of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Guff earned an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College in 1983. He attended Leningrad State University State University in 1981.

Born in 1965, Alexey Mordashov has been working for Severstal since 1988. He started his career as a senior economist, becoming Chief Financial Officer in 1992. In December 1996, he was appointed as Severstal’s Chief Executive Officer. Between 2002 and 2006 he served as CEO of Severstal Group and was Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Since the introduction of the new structure of corporate governance in December 2006 Mr. Mordashov has been CEO of Severstal. From December 2014 till June 2015 Alexey served as CEO of AO "Severstal Management" - managing organization of PAO Severstal. In May he was elected as Chairman of Severstal’s Board of Directors. Vice-Chairman of World Steel Association. Head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and WTO. Serves on the Entrepreneurial Council of the Government of Russian Federation. Co-chairman of the “Trade as a Global Driver” Taskforce of the “Business 20” of “Group of Twenty”. Co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council. Vice-President of Russian-German chamber of commerce, member of the Russian-German workgroup responsible for strategic economic and finance issues. Member of the EU-Russia Business Cooperation Council. Alexey earned his undergraduate degree from the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics. He also holds an MBA degree from Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University (UK).

Sergey Morozov was born on September 6, 1959 in Ulyanovsk. After graduating from high school, he worked as a machine operator at a furniture factory. He served in the Pacific Fleet from 1977 to 1980.Since 1981 he has worked at the law-enforcement bodies. He graduated from the All-Union Legal Institute with a major in law. He worked his way up from a criminal investigation inspector at the district office of internal affairs up to the head of a special anti-drug trafficking office of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ulyanovsk Region. In 1995, he was appointed head of the Internal Affairs Department of Dimitrovgrad. In December 2000 he was elected Mayor of Dimitrovgrad. In 2003, Dimitrovgrad won a federal competition and was granted the title of the “Cultural Capital of the Volga Region of 2004”. He has twice been awarded special government prizes for achievements in municipal improvements.In December 2004 Mr. Morozov was elected Head of the Administration of the Ulyanovsk Region. On March 28, 2006, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Ulyanovsk Region approved Mr. Morozov’s candidacy for Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region as submitted by Russian President Vladimir Putin. On March 6, 2011, he was re-elected as Governor for a new term.Mr. Morozov has a PhD in Economy. He defended his dissertation on the subject “Formation of a socioeconomic development strategy for the region”.He is married with five children: two sons and three daughters.

Mikhail Shamolin was born in 1970.Mr. Shamolin was appointed President of Sistema in March 2011 and previously served as President and CEO of MTS Group from May 2008 until March 2011.Mikhail Shamolin previously held the position of Vice President and Head of the "MTS Russia" business unit from August 2006.Mr. Shamolin joined MTS in July 2005 as Vice President for Sales and Customer Service, prior to which he worked at Interpipe Corp. (Ukraine) as Managing Director of the Ferroalloys Division from 2004 to 2005, and at McKinsey & Co from 1998 to 2004.Mikhail Shamolin graduated from the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation in 1993, and completed a Finance & Management course at Wharton Business School in 1997.

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).