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Born on March 1, 1970 in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region

Education:
1994: Tsiolkovsky Kaluga State Pedagogical University
Degree: History and socio-political disciplines
2003: professional retraining course at Moscow International Institute of Econometrics, Informatics, Finance and Law
2019: postgraduate course at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
PhD (History)

Career:
1994-1996: general director of AOZT Fineart
1996-1997: Chairman of the regional commission on the securities market
1996-1997: chairman of the regional commission for the securities market, Administration of the Governor of the Kaluga Region.
1997-1999: chairman of the Securities and Stocks Committee, Kaluga Region Governor's Administration
1996-1997: chairman of the securities and stock market committee, head of the economy department - deputy director of the department, and deputy director of the economy and industry department of Kaluga Region
1999-2002: chief specialist, head of the department for work with the regions in the Kaluga Region, representative office of the Regional Commission for the Securities Market of Russia in the Central Federal District in the Kaluga Region
2002-2004: First Deputy Chairman of the State Property Committee of the Kaluga Region
2004: Minister of Economic Development of the Kaluga Region
2004-2007: deputy city mayor, first deputy city mayor of Kaluga, mayor of Kaluga
2007-2012: Deputy Governor, First Deputy Governor of Kaluga Region
2012-2013: Deputy Head of the Office of the Government of the Russian Federation
2013-2018: First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government Office of the Russian Federation
2018-2020: Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
February 2020-present: General Director and Chairman of the Management Board of Russian Post
Member of the Board of Directors of Russian Post, RVC company, member of the Supervisory Board of the Higher School of Economics, Digital Economy ANO, member of the Board of Trustees of the Skolkovo Foundation, RANEPA, RFS, member of the Board of RSPP.
Owns no shares or stakes in subsidiaries or affiliates of Russian Post

Panel member (Minister) of commerce in Eurasian Economic Commission since February 2016.
Born 29 April 1968. PhD in Economics, presented a thesis on Managing the access of Russian goods to foreign markets in modern conditions.
Prior to appointment as member of Commission had held a position of assistant to the First Deputy of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Veronika Nikishina held management positions in the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, including Deputy Director of the Department for Trade Negotiations, Head of the Department of American Countries and the Department for Coordination, Development and Regulation of Foreign Economic Activities.
After 17 years of working for the Ministry of Economic Development, Veronika Nikishina has extensive experience in identifying and eliminating various trade barriers, applying trade protection and veterinary, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, as well as experience in international negotiations.
Currently Veronika Nikishina supervises a number of key areas for the Eurasian Economic Union, such as customs tariff and non-tariff regulation, the establishment of preferential trade regimes with third countries (free trade area), and the application of protective measures by the Eurasian Economic Union.
From February 2020 - General Director, Russian Export Center.

Born March 17, 1959.

Education:
1981: Graduated with honours from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Economics.
DSc (Economics).

Experience:
1981-1986: Intern researcher, junior researcher at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute at the USSR Academy of Sciences, man-machine system modelling laboratory.
1986-2006: Junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, laboratory head at the Institute of Economics and Scientific and Technical Progress Forecasts at the USSR Academy of Sciences (later Institute of National Economy Prognostication at the Russian Academy of Sciences).
2000-2006: General director, Centre for Macroeconomic Analyses and Short-Term Prognostication.
2000-2006: External adviser to the Prime Minister.
2006-2008: Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Deputy Minister of Economic Development.
2008-May 2012: Director, Government Department of Economy and Finance.
May 21, 2012: Appointed Minister of Economic Development by Presidential Executive Order.
From 24 June 2013, Presidential Aide, appointed by executive order of the President of Russia.

Born on 4 January 1967 in Bilibino, Magadan Region.

1993, Lomonosov Moscow State University, degree: Lawyer; major: Jurisprudence.

Professional Background:
1984–1985, laboratory technician, Ekos Research Institute.
1985–1987, compulsory military service in the Soviet Army.
1993, attaché, Legal Department, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1993–1995, Senior Legal Adviser, ALM Consulting; from 1995, Managing Partner, ALM.
1997, Head of the Department for the State Register of Federal Property, Russian State Committee for State Property Management.
1998, Deputy Minister of State Property.
1998–2000, Chairman of the Russian Federal Property Fund.
2000–2003, Minister of the Russian Federation as the Government Chief of Staff.
2003, Aide to the Russian President.
2003–2004, Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation.
2004, Aide to the Russian President.
From 2005, sherpa for the G8.
From 2008, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
On 24 May 2018 Igor Shuvalov was appointed as Chairman of Vnesheconombank.