Born in 1972.

Mr Dvorkovich graduated from the Economics Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in economic cybernetics and the New Economic School with a Masters in Economics in 1994.

He graduated from Duke University in North Carolina with a Masters in Economics in 1997.

Professional experience

• 1994 — Consultant, Senior Expert, Chief Executive and Scientific Director, Economic Expert Group, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation;
• 2000 — Expert at the Centre for Strategic Research;
• August 2000 — Adviser to the Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation;
• 2001 — Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation;
• 2004-2008 — Director of the Experts’ Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation;
• 2008-May 2012 — Aide to the President of the Russian Federation;
• 21 May 2012 — Appointed Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation under a decree of the President of the Russian Federation;
• 2015 — Chairman, Russian Railways Board of Directors.

Government and industry awards:

Medal ‘For Contribution to the Establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union (1st class)’; Order of Honour; Order ‘For Services to the Fatherland (4th class)’; Medal ‘For Service to the Motherland (2nd class)’; Medal ‘In Commemoration of the 1,000th Anniversary of Kazan’; Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation; Order ‘For Service to the Italian Republic’ (Italy); Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus).

Born in 1969.

Mr Belozerov graduated from St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance with a major in economics and industrial planning in 1992.

He is a candidate of economic sciences.

Professional experience

• 1998-2000 — Commercial Director, Lenenergo;
• 2000 — Deputy Director, Freight Motor Transport Enterprise No. 21;
• 2000-2001 — Office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President to the North-West Federal District;
• 2001–2002 — Deputy Director, Corporate Property Management, LOMO;
• 2002-2004 — CEO, Russian Fuel Company;
• July-November 2004 — Deputy Director, Federal Road Agency;
• 2004-2009 — Director, Federal Road Agency;
• March 2009 — Deputy Minister of Transportation of the Russian Federation;
• 2014 — Member of the Russian Railways Board of Directors;
• 2015 — First Deputy Minister of Transportation of the Russian Federation;
• August 2015 — President, Russian Railways.

Government and industry awards:

Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland (4th Class)’; Order of Honour; Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland (1st Class)’; Honorary Certificate of the Russian President; Gratitude of the Russian President; Honorary Certificate of the Government Staff of the Russian Federation; Medal of Pavel Melnikov; Badge ‘Honoured Transport Worker of Russia’; Lapel Pin ‘Honoured Road Builder of Russia’.

Born in 1975.

Mr Ivanov graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University in 1997 with a major in law. His postgraduate studies include the Russian Academy of Public Service under the Russian President (Moscow) in 2009 with a focus on management and the Russian Academy of Public Service under the Russian President (Moscow) in 2010 with a focus on business.

Professional experience

• 1997-1998 — Research Assistant, Krasnoyarsk State University;
• 1998-2004 — Leading Specialist and Chief Specialist, Administration of the Krasnoyarsk Region; Advisor to the Krasnoyarsk Region Governor on Legal Matters and Local Self-government; 29 December 2001 — Advisor to the Krasnoyarsk Region Governor on Legal Matters and Local Self-government; Department Director;
• 2004-2008 — Vice President, Siberian Engineering Holding; First Vice President, Siberian Engineering Holding as of 14 August 2006;
• 2008 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, SM.art Investment Company;
• 2008-2012 — Deputy Director and Director, Department for Budget Policy in Innovation, Civilian Industry, Energy, Communications and Public-Private Partnership, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation;
• 2011 — Member of the Board of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation;
• 2012-present — Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation;
• 2014 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways.

Government and industry awards:

Gratitude of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation; Medal of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office ‘290th Anniversary of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office’; Gratitude of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation; Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland (2nd Class)’; Silver Medal ‘For Contribution to the Development of the Russian Agribusiness Industry’ of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation.

Born in 1970.

Mr Komissarov graduated from Moscow Finance Institute in 1992 with a major in international currency and credit relations.

Professional experience

• 1992-1994 — Worked in various commercial structures;
• 1994-2000 — CEO, SPC Soyuz-Integration;
• 2000-2001 — Advisor to the CEO of Tyumenenergo;
• 2002-2003 — CEO, Transmashholding;
• 2003-2008 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Transmashholding;
• 2006 — Member of the Management Board, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE);
• 2007 — Member of the Administrative Office, Russian Engineering Union National Industrial Association of Employers;
• June 2008 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Technological Company;
• 2008 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways;
• February 2015 — Member of the Board of Directors, Future National Pension Fund.

Born in 1952.

Mr Stepashin graduated from the Higher Political School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1973, the Military and Political Academy in 1981 and the Finance Academy under the Russian Government in 2002.

He is a candidate of historical sciences, a doctor of legal sciences, professor, State Advisor on Justice of the Russian Federation and an Honorary Doctor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Professional experience

• 1990-1993 — People’s Deputy of the RSFSR, Chairman of the Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation on Defence and Security Affairs;
• 1993-1999 — First Deputy Minister of Security; Director, Federal Counterintelligence Service; Director, Federal Security Service; Minister of Justice; Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia;
• 1999 — First Deputy Prime Minister; Minister of Internal Affairs; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation;
• After being elected to the State Duma in December 2009, Mr Stepashin chaired the Anti-Corruption Committee;
• 2000–2013 — Chairman, Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation;
• 2014 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways;
• 2015 — Member of the Board of Directors, SoyuzNefteGaz Intergovernmental Oil Company.

Government and industry awards:

Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland (2nd, 3rd and 4th Class)’; Order of Courage; Medal ‘For Impeccable Service in the USSR Armed Forces (1st, 2nd and 3rd Class)’, Medal ‘For Distinction in Military Service (1st and 2nd Class)’, Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of Andropov, Lapel Pin "Honoured Worker of the Audit Chamber of the Russian Federation, Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honour (France) and the Order ‘For Merit in Diplomatic Service (Republic of Korea)’.

Born in 1948.

Mr Yakunin graduated from Leningrad Mechanical Institute in 1972. He holds a PhD in political science.

Professional experience

• October 2000 — Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation;
• February 2002 — First Deputy Minister of Railways;
• October 2003 — First Vice President, Russian Railways;
• June 2005-August 2015 — President, Russian Railways.

Government and industry awards:

Medal of Pyotr Stolypin; Medal ‘For Impeccable Service and Distinction (1st Class)’; Badge ‘For Merit in the Development of Russian Railways (1st Class)’; Order of Alexander Nevsky; Order of Friendship; Laureate of the Prize of the Russian Government in Science and Technology; Medal ‘90 Years of Transportation Police’; Honorary Certificate of the Russian Government; Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland (4th Class)’, Medal ‘For the Development of Railways’; Badge ‘Honorary Railwayman of Russian Railways’; Order of Honour; Medal of Pavel Melnikov.

Born in 1966.

Mr Yakunin graduated from Leningrad Mechanical Institute in 1972. He holds a PhD in political science.

Professional experience

• 2000-2003 — CEO, ESN Energo, which manages the company Kolenergo; Member of the Board of Directors, Kolenergo;
• 2004-2007 — Member of the Board of Directors, UES of Russia;
• 2006 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, ESN;
• 2007-2010 — Member of the Board of Directors, Freight One;
• 2008-2011 — Member of the Board of Directors, SG-trans;
• Member, Management Bureau, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE); Chairman, RUIE Commission for Electricity; Chairman, RUIE Commission for Independent Directors;
• Member of the General Council, All- Russia Public Organization Delovaya Rossiya;
• 2010 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways.

Born in 1942.

Mr Mehdorn graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Berlin Technical University (diploma in engineering).

Professional experience

• 1999-April 2009 — Chairman of the Management Board, Deutsche Bahn AG in Berlin;
• 2009-January 2013 — Chairman of the Management Board and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Air Berlin;
• 2011 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways;
• 2013-March 2015 — Chairman of the Management Board, Berlin Brandenburg Airport;
• Member of the advisory boards of a number of companies;
• Honorary Doctor of Engineering Sciences.

Born in 1953.

Mr Mehdorn graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Berlin Technical University (diploma in engineering).

Professional experience

• 2001-2006 — Deputy Chairman and Member of the Management Board, Gazprom;
• 2007 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, Russian Holding Company (Moscow);
• 2007 — Member of the Board of Directors, BIOtechnologies;
• 2008 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways;
• March 2009-February 2010 — Chairman of the Management Board, Stroytransgaz;
• 2010 — Member of the Board of Trustees, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations under the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (public activities);
• 2011 — CEO, Plyushchikha Management Company;
• 2012 — Member of the Management Board and Member of the Committee for the National Register of Independent Directors under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (public activities);
• 2013 — Member of the Board of Directors, Petroltool.

Born in 1971.

Mr Sidorov graduated from Moscow State Institute of International Relations under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993 with a major in international public law and the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance.

Professional experience

• 2000-2003 — First Vice President, Sistema-Telecom;
• 2003-2006 — President, MobileTeleSystems (MTS);
• 2006-2010 — Co-owner, Telecom- Express Group;
• 2010 — Managing Partner, Euroatlantic Investments Ltd;
• 2012 — CEO, ARIDA;
• 2012 — Member of the Board of Directors, Russian Railways;
• 2013 — Member of the Board of Directors, Aeroflot; 2014 — Director, Audit Commission under the Aeroflot Board of Directors;
• Member, Expert Council under the Russian Government; Member, Shareholder Advisory Council, VTB Bank.