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Maxim Safonov is an international affairs expert in economics, and a prominent specialist in the banking services area. He has worked for a long time on the practical problems of developing banking and non-banking financial organizations, located in Russia and abroad. He has several decades of publications on the issues of national economic security, the regulation of financial systems, and anti-crisis management using financial organizations. Professional experience: 2013-present: advisor/deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2011-2014: doctoral candidate at RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation (out of work) 2001-present: senior lecturer/associate professor/professor at the Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Russian government/ RANEPA under the auspices of the President of the Russian Federation 1999-2002: Chief Consultant of the Board of Directors/ Head of Analysis, Forecasting and Strategic Planning / Head of the Department of Development and Planning of the Bank for Foreign Economic Activities (Vnesheconombank). 1998-1999: director for corporate financing/deputy general director of Unicon/Consulting group 1996-1998: working and training abroad 1994-1996: advisor on specialized projects, City Mayor’s Office, St. Petersburg 1991-1992: general manager, Russian-American joint venture, the Hermitage Marketing Company Education 1982-1987: Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Orientalist and historian 1992–1994 : Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania; School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, International Affairs, PhD Related Program. 1996–1998: — John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Continuing Education Program, Business to Government Relations 1998-2000: The Banking Management Center/Faculty of Finance and Banking Business, Academy for the National Economy under the auspices of the Government of the Russian Federation, Finances and Credit, Banking Business, economist 2007-2009: Doctoral candidate at the Diplomatic Academy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian, The global economy and international relations, dissertation theme: “The Development of Approaches to Improve the Competitiveness of the National Economy by Attracting International Capital”. 2011-2014: Doctoral candidate at RANEPA, Management and the national economy sector, doctoral thesis on the “Transformation of the Management of Financial Resources in the National Economy Esing the Example of the Modernization of Public Corporations”.

Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics (the first and only Regius Professor of Economics in the UK) and the Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. He also holds the position of Chairman of the Council of National Economy of the Republic of Cyprus on a voluntary basis. He was educated at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics (LSE), and he spent the bulk of his career at the LSE. Sir Christopher specialises in the economics of labour markets, monetary and fiscal policy, economic growth and structural change. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen of Northwestern University and Peter Diamond of MIT, for his work on markets with frictions. The emphasis of his work has been the labour market and the theory and policy related to unemployment. Prior to that, in 2005, he became the first European economist to win the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, sharing it again with his collaborator Dale Mortensen. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Athens, the Academia Europaea and several other learned societies, and he is a Lifetime Honorary Member of the American Economic Association.In 2011 he served as the President of the European Economic Association. Between 2000 and 2007 he was the external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus, which brought the euro to Cyprus.

President of State-Owned Autonomous Medical Facility Moscow Research and Practical Centre for Medical Rehabilitation and Reconstructive and Sports Medicine of the Moscow Department of Healthcare, full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medicine Alexander Rasumov was born in 1944 in Sheperovo, Chaussky District, Mogilev Region. From 1960 to 1970, he studied at the Chernigov Higher School for Air Force Pilots and Engineers and the Grodno Institute of Medicine and the Saratov Institute of Medicine. From 1970 to 1990, he worked at the Defence Ministry’s Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine. From 1990 to 1992: Director, Research and Production Centre Rabotosposobnost of the USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas Construction. From 1992 to 1998: CEO, Moscow Centre for Health Problems under the Government of Moscow. From 1998 to 2010: Director, Federal State-Owned Institution Russian Research Centre for Rehabilitative Medicine and Resorts of the Ministry of Healthcare. Holds the title of Distinguished Scientist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation, President of the International University of Rehabilitative Medicine, of the National Resort Association and of the Russian Society of Rehabilitative Medical Doctors, member of the Board of the National Medical Chamber, member of the Russian-German Council, Professor Emeritus of Liverpool University, Russian representative in and member of the WHO European Committee for Global Health Policy, Chairman of the FEMTEC Medical Commission. Alexander Rasumov led the drafting and approval of the Concept for State Policy on Resort Development in the Russian Federation. He has been decorated with the Order of Service to Motherland in the Armed Forces 3rd Degree, the Order of Friendship, the Medal for Valiance in Combat, etc. Aleander Rasumovis a laureate of the Profession Life international prize, the Mikhail Lomonosov Prize in the field of Science and Education and the Russian Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development Russia’s Best Doctor: The Mission prize, recipient of a diploma of the N.A. Semashko Russian Academy of Medical Sciences prize for the best paper on the theory and history of healthcare.

Academician Vladimir E. Fortov was born on January 23, 1946. In 1968 he was graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with honors. In 1976 he received a doctoral degree, in 1982 was awarded the title of professor. In 1987 – was elected as corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR with specialization in thermal physics of the Division of physical-technical problems of power engineering. In 1991 he was elected as full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the divisions of Physical and technical problems of power engineering and General and technical chemistry. From 1993 to 1997 V.E.Fortov – Chairman of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research , from 1996 to 1998 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation – Minister of Science and Technology, from 1996 to 2001 – Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, from 2002 to 2013 – Head of the Department of energy, machinery, mechanics and control processes RAS, from 2013 - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From January 2007 academician V.E.Fortov is the Head of Joint Institute for High Temperatures RAS. V.E. Fortov is a well known scientist actively involved in the research fields of power engineering, thermal physics, strong shock and detonation waves, plasma physics and physical mechanics. V.E. Fortov belongs to the group of scientists, whose work determines the modern state of physical and engineering science. Academician Fortov was one of the first people to apply strong shock waves to a generation of intense pulses of electric currents and to also investigate the physical and chemical properties of materials under extreme pressure and temperatures. He was the first to carry out the detailed measurement of the properties of perspective working media for magneto-hydrodynamic and magnetic flux compression electric generators. His has made an unique scientific input in an entirely new field of physics, the physics of dense plasmas. Academician Fortov has made key contributions to the understanding and expanding knowledge of the basic properties of matter under extreme conditions.