Speakers

Alexey Ulyukaev

Chairman of the MICEX Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation

Born on March 23, 1956 in Moscow
Education: Graduated from the M.V. Lomonosov Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University in 1979
Graduated with a postgraduate degree in economics of from Moscow State University in 1982
Doctor of Science, Economics
Doctor of Economics from University Pierre-Mendes France (Grenoble)
Can speak English and French
Family status: married, has one son

Career:
1982–1988 — Assistant, associate professor of Moscow Construction and Engineering Institute.
1988–1991 — Consultant, department manager of “Communist” magazine
1991 — Political observer for the Moscow News newspaper
1991–1992 — Economic advisor to the Government of the Russian Federation.
1992–1993 — Led a group of advisors to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.
1993–1994 — Assistant to the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation
1994–1996 — Assistant Director of the transitional Institute of Economic Affairs
1996–1998 — Lawmaker in the Moscow City Duma
1998–2000 — Assistant Director of the transitional Institute of Economic Affairs
2000–2004 — First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
April 2004 — First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Director of the Bank of Russia

Vladimir Milovidov

Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service

Vladimir Milovidov was born on 13 January 1960 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State University in 1984 with degree in economics. In 1987, he completed his graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations attached to Academy of Sciences of the USSR with candidate degree in economics.

In 1987 Mr. Milovidov began his career working as junior and then as a senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

In 1998, Mr. Milovidov was appointed consultant to the secretariat of Prime Minister E. Primakov.

In 1999, Mr. Milovidov was appointed councilor to the Vice-Prime V. Khristenko.

In 2000, he was Deputy Head of The Federal Commission for Securities Markets, and in July 2000 he became First Deputy Head of The Federal Commission for Securities Markets.

In 2003, Mr. Milovidov was chosen to head The Department of Financial Markets and Privity of the Government.

On April 2004, he was assistant of Prime Minister M. Fradkov.

On May 17 2007, Mr. Milovidov was appointed Head of the Federal Financial Markets Service (FFMS).

In 2006 Vladimir Milovidov was conferred the Honoured Economist of Russian Federation

Konstantin Korischenko

President of MICEX

Born on August 28, 1958 in Zaporozh’e. Graduated from the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1980. Has worked since 1992 for the Central Bank of the Russian Federation: as the head of the Secondary Market Department in Administration of Securities, then as a Deputy Associate Administrator in Administration of Securities — Associate Manager of Stock Market Operations. In 1995 was appointed a substitute Director of the Capital Issues for Open-Market Operations Division of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. From 2000 until 2001 was in charge of TP Stock Exchange RTS. From 2001—2002 worked as the Asset Management Chairman of the Troika Dialog Investment Company CJSC. In 2002 was named to the post of Vice-Chair of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and elected a member of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation’s board of directors. Since 2003 – Chairman of the MICEX Board of Directors. On September 29, 2008 was appointed the temporary President of MICEX CJSC. On October 24, 2008, according to the decision of the general meeting of MICEX CJSC shareholders, was elected the President of MICEX CJSC. Since March 6, 2009, has also held the post of General Manager of the MICEX Stock Exchange.
Doctor of Science, Economics.

Anna Popova

Secretary of State – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

Born on April 8, 1964.
Higher Education: 1986 – Leningrad N.А. Voznesenskiy Financial-Economic Institute
Speciality: Industry Planning
Degree in Economics
1990-2002 – Scientific-teaching work in the Ministry of Science’s St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finances, the RSFSR Higher School of Technical Policy, the European University in St. Petersburg, and St. Petersburg State University;
2002-2004 – Advisor to the Federation Council Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation;
April – September 2004 – Deputy Director of the Department of Corporate Management;
September 2004 – July 2007 – Director of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development’s Department of Corporate Management;
July 2007 – Secretary of State – Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation;
Since June 28, 2008 – Secretary of State – Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

Anatoliy Aksakov

Deputy of the Russian Federation State Duma. President of the Regional Banks Association of Russia

Born on November 28, 1957 in the village of Yermolayevo in the Kumertau district of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Graduated from secondary school in 1975.

1975-1977 Engineer, machine operator in chemical factory
1977-1986 Studied in the M.V. Lomonosov Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University
Graduated in 1983 with a specialization in economics
Graduated from full-time postgraduate study in 1986
Ph.D. in Economics, associate professor
Graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with qualification as an external relations specialist in 2005
1984-1986 Lawmaker in the State Council of the Chuvash Republic
Since 1986 — Lecturer at Chuvash State University, associate professor of economic theory and market-based economy
1994-1997 Assistant Director of the Institute of Economics, Finance and Law (Cheboksary)
1995-1997 Director of the Cheboksary branch of Moscow Commercial Bank
1997-2000 Vice-Chair of Cabinet Council — Minister of Economic Affairs of the Chuvash Republic
Since 1999 — State Duma deputy, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Business Practices
2000-2003 State Duma deputy to the third Federal Assembly of Russian Federation from the Cheboksary single-seat electoral district, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Business Practices
Since 2004 —State Duma deputy to the fourth Federal Assembly of Russian Federation from the Cheboksary single-seat electoral district, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets
On November 15, 2006 was elected the President of the Regional Banks Association

Present member of the National Banking Board of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Published approximately one hundred scientific works about the problems of economic and social development in Chuvash and the country as a whole
Was awarded the National Order of Merit of the Fourth Degree, the Badge of Honor of Peter the Great, and was given the honorary title “Merited Economist of the Chuvash Republic”
On August 2, 2007 was awarded the National Order of Merit of the First Degree by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin
Married, has two sons, Dmitry and Aleksandr.

Andrey Kashevarov

Deputy Director of the Federal Antimonopoly Service

Born on February 3, 1961 in Moscow
Graduated from the G.V. Plekhanov Order of the Red Banner of Labor National Institute of Economics in Moscow in 1982 and postgraduate courses at the Soviet Institute of Trade in 1987, Ph.D. in Economics;
1982-1984 Economist, worked as a junior research assistant and research officer in the Department of Social and Economic Problems of the All-Union Research Studies Institute of Economics, Trade, and Management Systems of the USSR Ministry of Trade, Moscow;
1987-1988 Senior research assistant at the USSR Ministry of Trade’s All-Union Research Studies Institute of Economics, Trade, and Management Systems, Moscow;
1988-1990 Department instructor, Divisional Manager of the Youth Department of the Central Committee of AULYCL;
1990-1996 Specialist, Assistant Section Chief, Section Chief, Head of the Organized Goods and Financial Markets Oversight Department of the RSFSR State Committee for Anti-Monopoly Policy and the Support of New Economic Structures (SCAP of Russia);
1996-2001 Head of Department of Credit Organization Oversight in Financial Markets, Director of the RF Central Bank’s Licensing Department for Credit Organizations and Auditing Firms;
Appointed a substitute Minister of Antitrust Policy and Business Support (MAP of Russia) according to the Order of the Russian Government No. 62-r of January 18, 2001;
Appointed a substitute Director of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS of Russia) according to the Order of the Russian Government No. 471-r of April 14, 2004;
In October 2005 at the 7th Congress of the Russian Exchange Union (REU) Andrei Kashevarov was elected to the REU Board of Directors.
According to the Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 1045 of September 22, 2006 A.V. Kashevarov was given the honorary title of “Merited Economist of the Russian Federation.”
Andrei Kashevarov recieved the 2007 Golden Diploma for “information transparence and perfect business reputation” from the Financial Press Club of Russia. He was also given an Honorary Jubilee Diploma for his “huge investment in the formation of disclosure policy.”
Married, has one son.

Alexei Savatiugin

Director of the Finance Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

Born on June 25th, 1970 in Leningrad

Higher education: Graduated from St. Petersburg State University with a specialization in economics in 1992, professor of economics.
1992 – 2004: Lecturer in the economic theory and policy department at St. Petersburg State University
1992 -1994: Chief Specialist at S.-P. TU SCAP of RF
1994 – 1996: Section Head, Director of the Marketing Department, Deputy General Director of Orimi-Broker BF CJSC (St. Petersburg)
1996 – 2000: First Deputy General Director of Energocapital IC (St. Petersburg)
2000: First Deputy General Director of EGO-Holding LLC (St. Petersburg)
1999 – 2004: General Director of the Northwest Center for Finance Market Research NE (CIFM)
2000 – 2002: General Director of RTS Index Agency – Interfax LLC (Moscow)
2002: Chief economist at Stock Exchange RTS NP
2002 – 2004: President of the National Association of Exchange Market Participants (NAEMP)
June 2004 – present: Director of the Finance Policy Department
Current positions:
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rosgosstrakh JSC
Member of the National Bank Council
Member of the CIS International Currency Committee
Member of the Supervisory Boards of the Russian Provident Bank JSC, Rosselkhozbank JSC, Mortgage Lending Agency JSC (AML), and the Russian Bank for Foreign Trade JSC
Member of the Board of Directors of the Deposit Insurance Agency SC (ADI)
Member of the Administrative Board of the Bureau of Economic Analysis Fund and the Investment and Financial Analysts Guild (GIFA)
Member of the Presidium of the Russian Car Insurers Union (RUC)
Member of the Council of Experts for the Harvard Business Review (Russia), Stock Market, and Asset Management journals
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Distributors of Financial-Economic Information NUA (ADFEI)
Married, has a son and a daughter.

Aleksandr Shokhin

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
(Confirmation is expected)

Born on December 25, 1951 in the Archangelsk region
Graduated from the M.V. Lomonosov Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University in 1974, Doctor of Science, Economics (1989) – professor (1991)

From 1974-1982 worked in the USSR’s Gosplan Economic Research Institute and the USSR State Labor Committee’s Research Studies Institute of Labor
From 1982-1987 – Laboratory chief at the Central Economic-Mathematic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, laboratory chief at the Institute of Macroeconomic Forecasting of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
1987-1991 – Under-Secretary on Economic Issues, Managing Director of International Economic Relations at the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs
From 1991-1994 – Vice-Chair of Government of the Russian Federation. Simultaneously held the office of Minister of Labor and Employment; Minister of Economic Affairs; Chairman of the Russian Agency for International Cooperation and Development
In 1998 – Vice-Chair of Government of the Russian Federation for financial and economic affairs
From 1994-2002 –State Duma deputy for three assemblies. Within this period – First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, leader of the Duma group “Russia is Our Home,” Chairman of the State Duma committee on credit organizations and financial markets
Since 1995 – President of HSE – the Higher School of Economics. Head of the department of business theory and practice
From 2002 -2005 – Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Renaissance Capital Group
Since 2005 – President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Member of the President’s Council on National Priority Projects and Demographic Policy, the Executive Committee on Formation and Reserve Training of Administrative Workers, the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, and the Government Commissions on Administrative Reforms, Technology and Innovation, and Small and Medium Businesses
Independent member of the Boards of Directors of Lukoil JSC, Russian Railways JSC, and other companies

Married, has a son, a daughter, and three grandchildren.
A.N. Shokhin was awarded the National Order of Merit of the Fourth Degree, the Medal of Honor, and other public and departmental awards, among them: the Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow of the Second Degree, the Order of the Holy Blessed Princes Peter and Fevronia of Murom of the First Degree, the Honorary Diamond Order for Public Recognition, the National Security Medal of the RF Security Council, and an honorary MFA badge “For Investment in International Cooperation” for his major contribution to the development of national industry and business.

Alexey Timofeev

Chief Executive Officer of NAUFOR

Born on May 2, 1972 in Nizhnevartovsk
Graduated with distinction from the Ural State Law Academy with a specialization in jurisprudence in 1994

From 1994-1998 – Consultant for the International Institute of Legal Economic Development Worked on draft laws “Concerning Joint-Stock Companies,” “On Limited Liability Companies,” “On Investment Funds,” and a considerable number of FFMS regulatory acts.
From 1998 until October 2005 – Legal adviser to the Stock Market Development Center Participated in preparation of changes in the laws “Concerning Joint-Stock Companies” and “Concerning the Securities Market,” changes in the Civil Code of the Russian Federation concerning provision of judicial protection of derivative financial instruments, and other draft laws and FFMS and FSFM regulatory acts.
In October 2005 was elected Chief Executive Officer of NAUFOR
Member of the Community Board of Financial Market Participants at the FSFM of Russia Member of the Corporate Governance Council and the expert group on financial education at the FSFM of Russia
Member of the JSC RTS Board of Directors

Oleg Viugin

Chairman of the MDM Bank Board of Directors
(Confirmation is expected)

Born on July 29th, 1952 in the city of Ufa in the Bashkir Republic.
In 1974, he graduated from the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics) and in 1977 completed his postgraduate studies there. Oleg Viugin is a Candidate of Science (Ph. D in Physics and Mathematics).
He began his working career in 1978, lecturing in higher education institutions and working in scientific and research institutions in the field of economics.
From 1980 to 1989, Oleg Viugin held the positions of senior researcher and sector head at the All-Union Scientific and Research Institute for the Study of Consumer Demand and Trading Conditions.
From 1989 to 1993, he worked as a leading researcher and laboratory head at the Institute of Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Science.
In 1993, he was appointed Director of the Macroeconomic Policy Department of the Russian Ministry of Finance.
In 1994, he joined the Collegium of the Russian Ministry of Finance.
In 1996, Oleg Viugin was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance and in 1999, the First Deputy Minister of Finance. While working at the Ministry of Finance, he dealt with macroeconomic policy, budget policy, and the management the Russian Federation’s internal and external debt.
In 1999, he moved to the position of Executive Vice President of the Troika Dialog Investment Company.
In 1997, he was a member of the Russian government’s Commission for Economic Reform.
From 1997 to 2000, he worked with the Federal Securities Market Commission of the Russian Federation and the Supervisory Board of the National Stock Market Association.
Beginning in 2002, he held the position of First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation and was in charge of issues regarding the monetary policy of the Russian Federation.
On March 23rd, 2004, Oleg Viugin was appointed Head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets.
On June 7th, 2007, he was appointed Chairman of the MDM Bank Board of Directors.