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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aleksandras Abisala became managing partner of UAB A Abisala and Partners in 1993. After finishing his PhD, Mr Abisla was a fellow researcher in semi-conductor physics for 10 years. In 1988 Mr Abisala joined the Lithuanian Independence Movement, Sajudis. From 1991-92 Mr Abisala was a member of the Parliament and of the Cabinet. Mr Ak started his career as a Bond Dealer at Evgin Securities in 1996. After obtaining his MBA, Mr Ak joined the Zorlu Group in June 2000 where he held the position of Finance Chief at Vestel Communications until 2002 and later acted as Finance Manager at Vestel White Goods between 2002 and 2006. Mr Ak became Assistant General Manager at Zorlu Energy in 2006. Kanat Alpysbaev is the Vice President, Finance of Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ), Kazakhstan’s National Rail. Mr Alpysbaev graduated from Almaty Railway Engineering Institute with a specialisation in automatics, telemechanics and communication in railway transportation and qualified as an electrical engineer. He also completed a BA in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky and later gained a Masters in Business Administration from Moscow International Business School. Mr Alpysbaev is a citizen of Kazakhstan and speaks Kazakh, Russian and English. He was born in 1972. Fyodor Andreev Since 2005 Mr Andreev has held the position of Senior Vice President of Russian Railways (RZD). Mr Andreev graduated from St Petersburg University in 1989 and in his professional career has held a number of positions such as economist and then a senior economist at Tver Bank; Senior Marketing Expert of Tvercommerce; Senior Economist and then Head of Department of Tveruniversalbank and then from 1997-99 was Deputy Chairman of BaltonEximbank. He was also First Vice President of ALROSA (Russian Diamond Company) from 2002-03. Leszek Balcerowicz (born 1947); Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics (WSE), former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and former President of the National Bank of Poland (NBP). He is the architect of Poland's economic reforms initiated in 1989; he has been at the centre of Poland's economic and political life since the fall of communism in Poland in 1989. Author of more than 100 publications on economic issues in Poland and abroad. Recipient of numerous honours from universities and awards worldwide. Awarded Poland's highest decoration – Order of the White Eagle – for his contribution to the system transformation in 2005. Since 2006 Leszek Balcerowicz has belonged to the Distinguished Associates of the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES), founded in 1973; the IAES serves as an educational and scientific forum for the global community of well-known economists from around the world. In 2006 Leszek Balcerowicz became a member of the Group of Trustees, Institute of International Finance. The Group is engaged in the introduction and development of good practices concerning capital flows and debt restructuring in emerging markets. Founder of the Civil Development Forum Foundation. In 2008 Leszek Balcerowicz was appointed as the chairman of Bruegel, a European think-tank. He is a member of the High Level Expert Group on EU Financial Supervision. The Group was mandated in 2008 by the European Commission to produce recommendations for the supervision and cooperation of EU financial institutions and markets. Kasper Bartholdy is Credit Suisse's Global Head of Economics and Fixed Income Strategy for Emerging Markets. Kasper joined Credit Suisse at the end of 1996. In May 2003 he left Credit Suisse temporarily to work as a portfolio manager at EMSO (Citigroup's emerging markets hedge fund). He returned to Credit Suisse in May 2005. Kasper holds degrees in economics (MA), computer science and journalism from the University of Copenhagen and the Danish University of Journalism in Aarhus. After starting his professional career as a management consultant in Denmark in 1984, he became a country economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1986. Following a five-year spell with the IMF, he served as a member of the EBRD's team of economists for five years before joining Credit Suisse in late 1996. Erik Berglöf is the Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President at the EBRD. Prior to joining the EBRD, Erik Berglöf (PhD, Stockholm School of Economics, 1991) held the position of Director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. He was previously Assistant Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and has held visiting positions at Harvard, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a widely published and internationally respected specialist in the field of transition economics. His focus has been on policy-related issues in transition economies and he has regularly provided advice to national governments and international institutions including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. Erik Berglöf was the founder and President of the Centre for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in Moscow, Programme Director at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, and Board Member and Research Fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. In January 2006, Erik Berglöf took up his current position of Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President at the EBRD. Timothy Besley was appointed as an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, with effect from 1 September 2006. The Monetary Policy Committee is responsible for setting interest rates to meet the government’s inflation target. Timothy started his career as Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University from 1989 to 1995. In 1995 he joined the London School of Economics where he is now Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science, a position that he retains part-time along with his duties on the Monetary Policy Committee. Ibrahim H Çanakcı has held the position of Undersecretary of Treasury in the Republic of Turkey since 2003. He was born in 1962 in Elazığ. After he graduated from Elazığ High School, he completed his studies in Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University. He started his professional life in 1986 as an associate expert at the State Planning Organization (SPO). In 1992 he received the expert title. In this period, he worked on the analysis of macroeconomic developments, forecasting and the establishment of macro balances of annual and five-year development plans. Throughout the 1989-1991 period, he studied at the Michigan State University in the United States and earned a Masters degree in Economics. On his return to the SPO, he worked as the Head of Conjuncture Department between May 1994-December 2000. He pursued his career in the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency (BRSA) after December 2000. Following his tenure as the Department Head of Economic Evaluations for about two years, he became the Vice Chairman to the Banking Regulation and Supervision Board in December 2002. He has completed several studies on macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and conjuncture evaluation. Mr. Çanakcı is married with two children. Jacques Der Megreditchian joined Troika Dialog in June 2000, bringing with him nearly 20 years experience in investment banking and brokerage, in both the Western and Russian capital markets. In 2004 he was elected Chairman of the RTS Board of Directors (Russian Stock Exchange), in 2006 he became a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Stock Market Participants (NAUFOR). From 1996 to 2000, Mr Der Megreditchian was Deputy General Manager of Société Générale in Moscow, where he was in charge of capital markets and investment banking. From 1993 to 1996, he was Chief Representative to Russia for Crédit Commercial de France (CCF). He handled major advisory activities during Russia’s early privatisation programmes and served as the Director of the Framlington Russian Investment Fund, a US$ 66 million Luxembourg-based open-ended mutual fund (SICAV). Before working in Russia, Mr Der Megreditchian built a solid and diverse track record with CCF in Europe. From 1991 to 1993, he served as Deputy General Manager in Brussels. From 1986 to 1991, he worked in the bank’s Paris division, first as a Dealer in the Treasury department, then as an Interest Rate Dealer and then as Head of Primary Dealing (French market) and Proprietary Trading (North American and European markets). He initially joined as an Equity Analyst in Paris in 1985. Mr Der Megreditchian graduated from two Paris business schools: the European Business Institute (IEA), in 1984, and the French Center for Financial Analysis (CFAF), in 1987. Pelin Yenigün-Dilek was born in Istanbul in 1973. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey). She received a Masters in Development Economics with a special focus on Development Banking from the University of Kent in Canterbury (UK) in 1995. She has work experience at UNIDO (Vienna and Turkey), the Industrial Development Bank of Turkey and Global Securities (Istanbul) in the economic research departments. During 2003-04, she received another Masters degree in International Business Economics with a special focus on the economics of the European Union from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). She has been working at Garanti Bank (Istanbul) since 2006. Hugo Dixon founded the breakingviews web site in 1999. He is Editor-In-Chief and Chairman. Before founding breakingviews, Hugo spent 13 years at the Financial Times, the last five as head of the Lex column. He began his journalism career at the Economist. Hugo was a Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Before that, he was a King’s Scholar at Eton College. He is the author of The Penguin Guide to Finance and Finance Just in Time: Understanding the Key to Business and Investment Before It's Too Late. He was named Business Journalist of the Year 2000 in the British Press Awards. In 2008, he won the Decade of Excellence Award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards. He is a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation. Alisher Ali Djumanov has over 13 years of investment management, investment banking and advisory experience in the emerging markets of central and eastern Europe and the central Asian countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Mongolia. He has worked in major international financial centres such as New York, London and Zurich. Mr Djumanov is Chairman of Eurasia Capital Group, a Singapore-based holding group with extensive principal investments in Asia. He leads Eurasia Capital Management, an investment management firm that manages a number of funds focused on investments in Central Asia, Mongolia, Russia and China. Mr Djumanov is founder of Eurasia Capital, a pan-regional investment banking firm with offices in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and Chairman of Tuul Songino Water Resources, an infrastructure development company listed on the Mongolia Stock Exchange. He was Vice President of Auerbach Grayson & Co., a brokerage house in New York advising US institutional investors on portfolio investments in emerging markets in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He was Head of Corporate Finance in Central Asia and the Caucasus at Ernst & Young as well as Investment Banker at Renaissance Capital in Moscow and Credit Suisse First Boston in Zurich and London. Mr Djumanov received his Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Oxford University. Noreen Doyle currently serves as an independent non-executive director on the boards of Credit Suisse Group (Zurich); Newmont Mining Corporation (Denver); QinetiQ (UK); and Rexam PLC. She is also a member of the Advisory Panel for the Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund, serves on the Advisory Board of Sapphire Partners, and is a governor of Marymount International School London. Ms. Doyle is member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Noreen Doyle served as First Vice President of the EBRD from 2001 to 2005, chaired the Bank’s Operations Committee and was a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to her appointment as First Vice President, Ms Doyle was firmwide head of Risk Management. She joined the Bank in 1992 to set up its syndications function. Before joining the EBRD, Noreen Doyle had a distinguished career at Bankers Trust Company (now Deutsche Bank). Noreen Doyle has a BA from the College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, New York, and an MBA from Tuck School at Dartmouth College, where she currently serves on the Board of Overseers. She is a US and Irish citizen. Hervé Ferhani is Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he oversees the global IMF Central Banking activities. He recently led the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) of two G-7 countries, Italy and Canada. Before joining the IMF in November 2002, Hervé Ferhani was Director of the Market Operations in Banque de France in charge of monetary and exchange rate policy implementation as well as foreign exchange reserve management. During his career at the Banque de France, he was at the core of the French central bank action in the process leading up to the formation of the European Monetary Union. He was Banque de France representative in the European Central Bank’s Market Operations Committee where all monetary and foreign exchange policy implementation issues were negotiated. Since June 2006 Mrs Mariana Gheorghe has been the Chief Executive Officer of Petrom, the largest company in Romania. She is a graduate of the Economical Studies Academy and the Law Faculty in Bucharest, as well as the Corporate Finance programme, London Business School. Between 1991 and 1993 Mrs Gheorghe was Deputy General Manager at the Finance Ministry. From 1993 to June 2006 she worked for the EBRD in London where she managed a significant portfolio of financial international transactions and cooperated closely with Romania and Petrom. While Mrs Gheorghe held different positions at the EBRD dealing with several countries, she focused mainly on Romania and on the oil and gas sector. She was also a member of Petrom’s Board of Directors. After the company’s privatisation, Mrs Gheorghe resigned from the EBRD in June 2006 to take over the CEO position in Petrom. Mrs Gheorghe continued the implementation of the company’s development strategy established in 2005 and will continue the sustainable development projects that will place Petrom as the leading oil and gas company in south-eastern Europe. Levon Hampartzoumian is the CEO and Chairman of the Management Board of UniCredit Bulbank. He is also a Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of BORIKA (Card Processing JV), member of the Management Board of the Association of Banks in Bulgaria and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company. Mr Hampartzoumian is a non-executive member of the Board of the Institute for Market Economy, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sofia University and a member of the Board of Trustees of the City University of Seattle in Bulgaria. Since 1997 Mr Hampartzoumian has been the Honorary Consul of Canada in Bulgaria. Mr Hampartzoumian has a degree in Chemical Engineering and professional experience working for PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Ernst & Young. Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking (WWB), the world’s largest network of microfinance institutions and banks. Ms Iskenderian leads the WWB global team, based in New York, in providing hands-on technical services and strategic support to more than 50 top-performing microfinance institutions and banks in 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. WWB’s network members consistently rate among the top three microfinance institutions in their countries and more than 75 per cent of their clients are poor women entrepreneurs. Ms Iskenderian, who joined WWB in 2006, has more than 20 years’ experience in building global financial systems throughout the developing world. Ms Iskenderian is a leading voice for women’s leadership and participation in microfinance, and a strong advocate for the role of capital markets in the sector. She has spoken widely on microfinance at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Wharton and at numerous industry and banking forums, including the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting; the Council on Foreign Relations and the ResponsAbility Microfinance Conference in Zurich, Switzerland. She was recently profiled in Forbes magazine and the Wall Street Journal, and is frequently quoted in the media, including Newsweek, Time, BBC News and Voice of America. Before WWB Ms Iskenderian worked for 17 years in senior management at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, where her numerous leadership positions included Director of Partnership Development, Director of the Global Financial Markets Portfolio and Director of the South Asia Regional Department. Previously, she worked for the investment bank, Lehman Brothers. Ms Iskenderian currently sits on the advisory boards of the Dignity Fund and Kiva, and on the Board of Directors for ASA Foundation. She is a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of Harvard University and the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining WWB, she was a director on many corporate boards, including ShoreCap International, an important equity and loan fund for microfinance. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Organization and Management and a Bachelor of Science in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. From 1995 to 1997 Mr Japarov was an assistant to the first Vice-Premier Minister of Kyrgyz Republic. In November 1997, Mr Japarov was appointed Senior Inspector to the State Tax Inspection of the Ministry of Finance of Kyrgyz Republic. In April 2000, Mr Japarov became Chairman of the Committee for Taxes and Custom Charges and from 2005-07 he was the Minister of Finance of Kyrgyz Republic. Since 2007 Mr Japarov has held the position of Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Kyrgyz Republic. Dr Nigel Jollands’ career spans 15 years in the energy, resource management and economic analysis fields. In November 2006 he took up a post with the International Energy Agency (IEA) as Principal Administrator in the Energy Efficiency and Environment Division. In February 2009 he was appointed Head of the Energy Efficiency Unit at the IEA. This role includes leading the IEA’s energy efficiency policy analysis, coordinating the IEA’s energy efficiency advice to the G-8 under the Gleneagles Plan of Action, co-coordinating the Agency’s Energy Efficiency Working Party and participating in in-depth reviews of member countries’ energy policies. Nigel is currently also leading the IEA’s work on energy in cities and a project on energy efficiency and governance. Nigel was previously Principal Ecological Economist in the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics (NZCEE) at Landcare Research. He has also held posts in New Zealand as Senior Lecturer at Massey University, as a senior policy analyst in New Zealand’s capital at various Ministries (Ministry of Commerce; Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority and Ministry for the Environment). He is a regular presenter at international conferences, has published numerous journal articles and contributed to several books in the areas of energy efficiency and ecological economics. Júlia Király has held the position of Deputy Governor of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank in Hungary since July 2007. Ms Király has a university degree in economics. Talgat Kukenov is responsible for the general management of the Aureos Central Asia Fund, overseeing deal flow, execution, value-add and exits in his region. Talgat has over 10 years of experience in private equity, investment and corporate finance gained in Kazakhstan and the EBRD’s countries of operations. Before joining Aureos in 2007, Talgat was the Deputy Chairman of the Investment Fund of Kazakhstan (IFK), a US$ 300m private equity fund established by the Kazakh government for investment in domestic enterprises. Before this he worked as the Deputy Chairman of the National Innovation Fund (NIF), making investments in the United States, Europe and Asia. Talgat was also an Investment Manager at Eagle Venture Partners (EVP), one of the first private equity funds in the EBRD’s region of operations. Talgat started his career as an Investment Analyst for the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (CASEF). Talgat holds an MBA from the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research and a Masters Degree in International Finance from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mikhail Yurievich Kurbatov was born on 7 October 1981 in St Petersburg. He graduated from the St Petersburg University of Economics and Finance in 2003, majoring in International Economics. Since July 2008 he has been the Director, Department of Tariff Regulation, Infrastructural Reform and Energy Efficiency, Ministry of Economic Development in Moscow. He has held many positions at the Ministry such as Deputy and then Head of Energy, Housing and Utilities Sector Restructuring Group and his previous professional experience has seen him as an accountant and a Chief Accountant at ООО PSPb- Razvitye from 2002-03 and a consultant for OOO Aplha-Integrator-BAAN SNG from 2003-04, both based in St Petersburg. Pavel Kysilka is a graduate of the University of Economics in Prague and also passed his internal postgraduate research there in 1986. From 1986 to 1990 he worked at the Institute of Economics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and as a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics. In 1990-1991 Mr Kysilka worked in the Ministry for Economic Policy as the Chief Economic Adviser to the Minister for Economic Policy. In the 1990s Mr Kysilka was appointed by the Czech President as Vice-Governor of the Czech National Bank, after which he then became Acting Governor in 1997. He managed the splitting of the Czechoslovak currency in 1993 and the introduction of the Czech national currency. Between 1994 and 1997 he acted as an expert for the International Monetary Fund and helped to implement the national currencies in several eastern European countries. In the 1990s he was President of Česká ekonomická společnost. Lately he was an adviser for post-war reconstruction in Iraq. Mr Kysilka began working for Česká spořitelna in 2000 as Chief Economist and member of the senior management team. In October 2004 the Supervisory Board of Česká spořitelna appointed him a member of the Board of Directors and Deputy CEO. Before joining Česká spořitelna Mr Kysilka worked in Erste Bank Sparkassen (CR) in Prague as Executive Director. Among other things he is a member of the Managing Board of the University of Economics in Prague and the Board of the international music festival Smetana´s Litomyšl. He is also President of the Formula One Club. Prior to assuming his current post as Governor, National Bank of Kazakhstan, Mr Marchenko held a number of important positions. These included: Chairman of the Board of the National Savings Bank of Kazakhstan; Non-Staff Adviser of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Assistant to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan on economic affairs and President of ОAO Deutsche Bank-Securities (Kazakhstan). His awards include Best Financier of the Year and Honourable Consul of the Republic of Singapore in Kazakhstan and Honourable Consul of the Kingdom of Spain in Almaty. Aimee McKane is Senior Program Manager of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (LBNL) Industrial Partnerships programme and has more than 25 years of experience in energy efficiency. Ms McKane works with the US Department of Energy’s (USDOE) Industrial Technologies Program on several initiatives, including a new programme to certify industrial plants for energy efficiency, which includes an energy management standard as well as system assessment standards. She also works extensively with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on the design and implementation of projects in China, south-east Asia, Russia and elsewhere to promote energy management and system energy efficiency. An issues paper she prepared for UNIDO in 2007 became the impetus in developing support for an international energy management standard. She is the Vice-Chair of the US Technical Advisory Group for the ISO Project Committee – PC 242 –responsible for the development of ISO 50001: Energy management. Since 2004, Ms McKane has been a member of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Consensus Board that oversees revisions to the US standard, ANSI MSE 2000:2008. She also helped initiate and continues to be involved in the Compressed Air Challenge™, a public-private partnership to build awareness of the benefits of improving compressed air system efficiency. In 2003, Ms McKane received the Champion of Energy Efficiency award from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy in recognition of her contributions to the field. Ms McKane has a BA with a major in architecture from Washington University and an MA in Business and Policy from the State University of New York. For additional information on recent research and publications, see http://industrial-energy.lbl.gov/
Shahmar Arif oglu Movsumov was appointed Executive Director of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan in May 2007 as advised by the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev. He graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of Moscow State University of International Relations. He received his Master degree in Public Administration from the Harvard University John F Kennedy School of Government. Dissertator of the Faculty of International Relations of Azerbaijan State Economic University. Passed traineeship in the United States and Europe. From 1995 he worked in the National Bank of Azerbaijan, coordinating international cooperation affairs, monetary management and financial markets development. Up to his appointment as Executive Director of the State Oil Fund, Mr Movsumov held a position as the General Director of the National Bank. He was originator of the Azerbaijani models of mortgage crediting on the base of which in 2005 the concept of mortgage crediting and package of relevant legislation was prepared. He chairs the National Committee of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Wolfgang Munchau is an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column. He is also co-founder and director of Eurointelligence Advisers, an economics consultancy specialising in the eurozone. He was part of the team that created Financial Times Deutschland, the Germany financial daily, and the paper's editor-in-chief between 2001-03. Prior to this, he held several posts as a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and the Times of London. Nejira Nalić, Bosnia and Herzegovina is Managing Director of Mi-BOSPO in Tuzla, one of the leading and most profitable microfinance institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina that is notable for targeting small businesses and women entrepreneurs. Ms Nalić started her career as a volunteer with the Red Crescent and Red Lily Tuzla. In January 1995 she was offered a chance to register and manage a new organisation, the Humanitarian Organisation Bosnian Relief Alliance, BOSPO Tuzla, and by October of the same year she was promoted from Project Manager to Director. In 2000 Ms Nalić was appointed the Managing Director of Mi-BOSPO. Mi-BOSPO serves more than 31,000 low-income women entrepreneurs and has almost doubled its loan portfolio since 2006 to €38 million in 2008. Petra Opitz is an economist and energy sector expert with strong international experience, especially in Russia, Ukraine and Central Asia. She has advised firms and governments on energy issues such as regulation, energy efficiency, renewable energies, climate change and emissions trading. During her work for the German Institute of Economic Research (DIW) from 1998-2001 she was member of the German Advisory Group to the Ukrainian government. Within the group she was responsible for energy policy advice and worked as team leader for the last year. From 2001-08 she headed the international cooperation division of the German Energy Agency (Dena) and was responsible for developing and implementing projects of policy advice to the governments of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energies. On behalf of Dena she was consultant to the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology in Germany within the Working Group on Energy Efficiency of the EU-Russia Energy Dialogue and worked also as coordinator of the German-Russian Subgroup on energy efficiency of the German-Russian Strategic Working Group. She has hands-on experience in capacity-building projects in the fields of energy efficiency and renewable energies in Russia and other newly independent states (NIS) countries as well as in developing joint implementation and clean development mechanism projects in eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia as well as in Brazil and Tunisia. She studied in Berlin and Moscow and holds a PhD in Economics. She is fluent in Russian and English. At present, she works with DIW econ as well as with the Free University Berlin. From 1991-97 Mr Pruski was Vice-President of the Board at LG Petro Bank where he was responsible for credit risk and the network of branches. Robert C Rekkers left Holland 20 years ago to embrace an international career, soon after completing his education in Business-Economy and Law in Rotterdam. He would then accept every new opportunity to improve on his business expertise, working for ABN AMRO in Paris, Frankfurt, Paraguay (as Deputy CEO), New York (Vice President) and Columbia (Country Manager). In 1999 he moved to Romania, as Country Manager – President of ABN AMRO, without knowing at this stage that this, the eighth country he was moving to, would be “his longest stay” in a foreign community and probably the most rewarding, both in terms of career and personal life. Yet, the biggest challenge would come only two years later, in 2002, when he said goodbye to the bank he had served for 17 years and took over the leadership of Banca Transilvania, a local Romanian bank (12th in the Romanian banking sector) which seemed to be tailor-made for his entrepreneurial nature. Under his modern and flexible management style, Banca Transilvania gradually became an example of a successful business, going all the way to the top five banks in 2007, with a strong focus on the SME sector. The figures also speak in favour of the bank’s amazing growth as its network has developed from 40 units in 2002 to more than 500 units now, providing quality services for more than 1,400,000 active clients. Establishing a balanced strategy with healthy capital adequacy ratios and a diversified funding structure, ensuring strategic partnerships with development financial institutions such as the EBRD, International Finance Corporation, FMO and DEG, and creating a solid sales platform are only a few of Robert Rekkers’ accomplishments as CEO of Banca Transilvania. Kirill Rubinsky is Vice President, Finance, at Industrial Investors Group and a member of the Board of FESCO. From 2000 to 2001 he worked at the European branch of Marsh and McLennan Finance Corporation, where he first held the post of Project Finance Director and later Director for Business Development in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. From 1992 to 2000 Mr Rubinsky was Vice President of Credit Lyonnais, where he was responsible for the bank’s work with large corporations (including Russian ones) in the oil and gas industry. Mr Rubinsky graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and the Commercial School of Paris. Mr Saidmurodov began his career in Tajikistan’s banking sector by joining Agroinvestbank in 1988. His responsibilities included analytical research work and operational activities. Between 1996 and 2004 Mr Saidmurodov acted as the Bank’s Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management, where he was in charge of international activities from 1996-97 and later oversaw operational activities from 1997-2004. Mr Saidmurodov was appointed Chairman of the Board of Management of Agroinvestbank in January 2004. Manfred Schepers has held the position of Vice President, Finance at the EBRD since 2006. He is responsible for Treasury (capital markets funding, liquidity investment and asset and liability management); Strategic and Business Planning and Budget, Financial Reporting (IFRS) and Control (COSO); Financial Policies, Loan Syndications, Information Technology and Operations. In addition, he is a member of the EBRD’s Executive Committee and Deputy Chair of the Operations Committee (responsible for all equity investment and lending decisions). From 2004 until October 2006, Mr Schepers was Senior Managing Director and Head of the Bond Market Association (BMA), International, based in London. In this role he managed the activities of the BMA in Europe and Asia and its affiliates, the European Primary Dealers Association, European Securitisation Forum and the European High Yield Association. Mr Schepers’s responsibilities included providing an effective presence for the global debt and credit markets in Europe and Asia in addition to the Association’s established presence in the United States, as well as leading the Association’s European staff, including senior regulatory experts and market analysts, overseeing their work in the areas of European government bond, credit, repo and securitisation markets and general securities market regulations affecting all market segments. Before joining the BMA, Mr Schepers held a number of senior positions for UBS around the world during his 17-year career at the company. He ran fixed-income distribution in Japan and Asia, was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets from 1992-2002 and managed credit fixed-income in Europe, before taking on the role as Vice Chairman of Fixed-Income, Rates and Currencies. Mr Schepers, a Dutch national, holds a BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics and an international baccalaureate from the United World College of the Atlantic. Marina Sedykh, Russia is a founding member and Director General of Irkutsk Oil Company. The company is a regional leader in oil and condensate production and, along with its affiliates, employs over 1,000 people. As well as being a major employer in the Irkutsk region, Irkutsk Oil provides heating oil and gas to the municipalities, making it affordable to locals. Irkutsk Oil operates 11 oil and gas fields in the Irkutsk region. Sales revenue in 2008 totalled 3.4 billion roubles and investments in environmental activities increased seven-fold on those made in 2007. Between 1981 and 1997 Ms Sedykh held several legal positions in various companies and is currently the only female Director General in the Russian oil industry. Olga has been Managing Director of Morgan Hunt, a UK executive search consultancy, since 1995 and is responsible for the firm’s business in Russia. Before Morgan Hunt, Olga was a management consultant at PWC, a visiting professor in Texas A&M University and a research associate in the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2007-08 she also served on the Board of Directors of MDM Bank and chaired the Remunerations and Nominations Committee. Morgan Hunt Ltd is a UK-registered company and has operated in Russia as a representative office since 1995. In the recent restructuring of Morgan Hunt in March 2008 the Russian business was audited, evaluated and merged into Morgan Hunt Group. The company has an established reputation in Russia primarily in the financial sector. Over the years the business has evolved into a generalist executive recruitment service covering all sectors and management functions. David Shirreff joined the Economist in March 2001 as Capital Markets Editor and in September 2003 moved to Frankfurt to cover German business and finance. Previously he has written for Euromoney, Risk, Wall Street Journal and Middle East Economic Digest. David's book, Dealing with Financial Risk, was published by Profile Books in June 2004. He has been interviewed on international TV, including CNBC, and has moderated panels on various topics in both English and German. Konstantin Sonin is SUEK Professor of Economics at the New School of Economics, Moscow. He received his PhD from the Moscow State University; he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard in 2000-01 and a visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2004-05. In 2002 and 2003, Sonin was awarded the Best Economist prize by the President of the Russian Academy of Science. In 2004, he received the Gold Medal of the Global Development Network for his paper on the sources of political demand for bad institutions. His academic papers appeared in leading international journals such as Journal of Comparative Economics, International Finance, Economics Letters, and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. His fortnightly column on economics and politics appears in Vedomosti, the leading Russian business daily, published jointly by Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, and the Moscow Times, Russia’s main English-language newspaper. Konstantin Sonin is a member of the Board of Association for Studies in Public Economics in Russia (ASPE). Dr Herbert Stepic is Chief Executive Officer of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding and Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich (RZB), which is among the leading banking organisations in central and eastern Europe (CEE). He has over 30 years of experience in international banking and trade finance and is a renowned expert on CEE. He is the mastermind and the driving force behind the rapid expansion of the Raiffeisen network. The cornerstone of its operations was established in Hungary in 1986, today the group covers 17 markets of the region. He joined the group in 1973 and established the Foreign Trade Promotion Department. In 1987, he became a Member of the Managing Board and was appointed Deputy Chairman in 1995. He presides over the Supervisory Boards of numerous CEE subsidiaries and, among other supervisory positions, is a Member of the Supervisory Boards of Oesterreichische Kontrollbank and OMV, both based in Vienna. In 2007, Dr Stepic was awarded European Banker of the Year and European Manager of the Year. Since June 2007 Lord Stern has held the post of IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics (LSE), heading the India Observatory within the LSE's Asia Research Centre. From April 2008 Lord Stern became Chairman of LSE’s new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is also Special Adviser to the Group Chairman of HSBC on Economic Development and Climate Change. Before 1994 he worked mostly in the academic arena: including 1986-1993 at the LSE as the Sir John Hicks Chair in Economics. Lord Stern taught and researched at many places including Oxford and Warwick universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the École Polytechnique in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing. His research and publications have focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition. His first books were on tea in Kenya and the Green Revolution in India (where he lived for eight months in a village in 1974-5). He has written books on crime and criminal statistics in the United Kingdom and a few on public finance and development. His book Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen was published in April 2005. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was published in October 2006 (http://www.sternreview.org.uk), and in printed form by Cambridge University Press in January 2007. He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles. A Blueprint for a Safer Planet was published by Random House in April 2009. Lord Stern has served on the committees of Oxfam, ODA, and the United Nations. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy (July 1993) and attained Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998). He holds a BA Cambridge (Mathematics), D.Phil Oxford (Economics), Honorary Doctorates from several universities, including Warwick, Cambridge and Paris-Dauphine. He is a Honorary Fellow, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, The Queen's College, Oxford and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He is a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He was knighted for services to economics in June 2004; his cross-bench non-party political peerage was announced in October 2007, and he was introduced to the House of Lords in December 2007. Gyorgy Suranyi was born on 3 January 1954 in Budapest, Hungary. He has been Regional Head of Central and Eastern Europe for Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy since 2001. He is Chairman of the Board of its subsidiaries: CIB, VUB, PBZ, BIB. He is also a Professor of Finance at Corvinus University of Economics and CEU. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Economics, Budapest; a PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (1986) and a Dr. Habil., University of Economics, Budapest (1996). John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. A graduate of University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin, he taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a Visiting Professor of Economics at Harvard University and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He has written widely in the areas of microeconomic theory and industrial organisation. His books include Sunk Costs and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1981), Technology and Market Structure (MIT Press, 1998), and Marshall's Tendencies: What Can Economists Know? (MIT and Leuven University Press, 2000). He has been a consultant for the World Bank since 2000, and served on the Advisory Committee on Access to the Japanese Market (Tokyo) from 1995 to 2002. He served as a member of the Group of Economic Advisers to the President of the European Union from 2001-04, and of the Enterprise Strategy Group (Ireland), which reported in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy, and was President of the Royal Economic Society from 2004-07. Mukhabat Teshaeva, Uzbekistan is the General Director and owner of “Shahboz Shahrom”, a synthetic carpet and moquette (a synthetic floor covering) production company in Kagan, in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan. Ms Teshaeva set up a moquette importing business in 1992 with an initial investment of about US$ 1,000 and by 1997 had reached a turnover of US$ 350,000. She then founded Shahboz Shahrom in 1998 and by 2001 had established a full production cycle of moquette, later reinvesting her profits back into the production of carpets. In 2004/05 she acquired two fully automated, brand new synthetic carpet weaving machines produced by a leading European manufacturer with an annual average capacity of more than 500,000 square metres each. Ms Teshaeva solely owns Shahboz Sharom and is one of Uzbekistan’s successful women entrepreneurs.
Mr Antoine Toussaint has 24 years of experience in the banking and the financial sectors. Following graduation from a business school in Paris in 1985 he pursued a career in banking by working on number of organisation and IT projects within the financial sector. Mr Toussaint joined the Société Générale Group in 1991 where he was managing an internal consulting and organisation department in charge of a large inter-bank information systems project. In 1994 he moved to Lebanon where as General Manager he established and developed a leasing subsidiary for Société Générale. After this first successful experience abroad he was appointed as Corporate Commercial Director in the Bordeaux region, France. In 2003 Antoine Toussaint was appointed Executive Director in charge of the commercial division in SKB Banka in Slovenia. After the reorganisation of the commercial activities of the Slovenian subsidiary of Société Générale, he joined the team of Société Générale SRBIJA in 2004. This is Mr Toussaint’s fifth year in Serbia, initially as Deputy Chief Executive Officer in charge of commercial activities and, since March 2008, as Chief Executive Officer of Société Générale SRBIJA. Zdenek Tuma was born on 19 October 1960 in České Budějovice. Zdeněk Tůma graduated from the Faculty of Trade at the University of Economics, Prague, and worked there after completing his studies. In 1986 he joined the Institute for Forecasting of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences as a postgraduate researcher. In 1993-95 he was an adviser to the Minister of Industry and Trade, and from 1995 he was Chief Economist at Patria Finance. From June 1998 until joining the Czech National Bank (CNB) at the beginning of 1999 he held the post of Executive Director of the EBRD, representing the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary and Croatia on the Board of Directors. From 1973-76 Mr Tymonkin worked as a scientist within a research group at the Kyiv Institute for National Economy. Mr Tymonkin held various top executive positions between 1973-1993, both in commercial institutions and state agencies. From 1993, before taking the position of the Chairman of Ukrsotsbank in 2001, Mr Tymonkin worked as Deputy Chairman of the First Ukrainian International Bank. Mr Tymonkin holds leading positions in many financial organisations. He has been the Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Interregional Securities Union since 2001 and was elected Head of Council of the First Securities Trading System (PFTS) in July 2002. In June 2005 Mr Tymonkin became the Head of the Supervisory Council of the First All-Ukrainian Bureau of Credit Histories. Mr Tymonkin also holds the position of Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Council of Association of Ukrainian Banks (AUB).Mr Tymonkin was repeatedly awarded Banker of the Year and holds numerous other titles awarded by different authoritative ratings and business editions. Before joining the MDM Bank Board of Directors as Chairman in 2007, Oleg headed the Federal Financial Markets Service of Russia, a position he had held since 2004. Between 1999 and 2002 he was Executive Vice-President at Troika Dialog, Russia’s oldest investment bank. Oleg has also held a variety of senior positions within the Russian government, including First Deputy Minister of Finance, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia and Extraordinary Adviser to the Prime Minister of Russia. After graduating from the department of mechanics and mathematics at Moscow State University in 1974, Oleg was successfully awarded his PhD in physics and mathematics at the same university in 1977. Tony Venables is Professor of Economics at Oxford University where he also directs the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. Former positions include Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development, Professor at the London School of Economics, Research Manager of the Trade Research Group of the World Bank and Adviser to the UK Treasury. Dr Vasily V Vysokov has a PhD in Economics and since 2002 has been the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Joint Stock Company Center-Invest Bank (Rostov-on-Don) in Russia. Before this, Mr Vysokov was Head of the Center of Economic Assistance for market conversion of Rostov Region Administration and prior to that he was General Director of the Federal Fund for SME support, Moscow and Deputy Chairman of the Directors’ Board of JSC Center-Invest Bank. He is now Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a member of the Rostov Region Governor’s Councils for Banking activities, a member of Krasnodar Region Governor’s Investment Councils, a Member of Rostov Region Council for Small Enterprises and has been a participant of the World Economic Forums in Davos, Annual Meetings of the World Bank, Annual Meetings of the EBRD and other international economic forums. Studying at Rostov State Institute of National Economy and Novosibirsk State University, he was at that time an Assistant Professor/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor of the Department of National Economy Planning of the Rostov State Institute of National Economy, Rostov-on-Don. Mr Vysokov was awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 2003 Russia (Financial Services), first place in Successful Entrepreneur 2008 (by newspaper Gorod N, Rostov region, rating-list) and a Silver award in Sustainable Banker of the Year 2007 by Financial Times. Mr Vysokov is the author of more than 200 works on the economic problems and the development of SMEs in the south of Russia. Aygen Yayikoglu is the Founder and Managing Partner of Crescent Capital, an independent investment house focusing on energy and infrastructure finance in Turkey and surrounding regions. Aygen has 14 years of experience in emerging markets project finance covering central and eastern Europe, the former Soviet states and Turkey. After spending eight years at the EBRD's Headquarters in London, Aygen spent the last six years in the field, first heading the EBRD's country offices in the Balkans and Caucasus, and more recently helping establish the International Finance Corporation's regional infrastructure team based in Istanbul.
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