Has two university degrees in intercultural communication and international relations. After leaving the civil service, he worked as a correspondent for the international information department of the newspaper Tribune, owned by JSC Gazprom Media.

In 2008 he joined the OZON.ru team as a manager in public relations and relations with authorities. In 2010 he was appointed the position of Head of Marketing Communications and PR. Since September 2011, Mikhail headed digital sales and worked on the launches and development of digital books, games and software at OZON.ru.

In 2014, in the position of head of the project development department, he was engaged in the development and marketing of OZON.ru’s mobile applications as well as the increasing of international sales. Under the direction of Mikhail, versions of the 2.0 application have been successfully launched, the SCAN IT! function has been introduced, a mobile website has been launched and the turnover of foreign sales has increased considerably. In 2015 Mikhail was appointed Web Applications Director for OZON.ru.

Igor Rodin possess more than 20 years professional experience in advising international tax planning, IPO, M&A transactions to international and local companies in the Latvian manufacturing and financial services sector. Igor Rodin was the first Latvian to become a partner in Big 4 accounting firm in Latvia and the first local national to lead a Big 4 practice in the Baltics.

Igor Rodin has advised and audited banks in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, and he holds experience in such FSI projects as attracting investors to management companies, leading projects of selling, purchasing and restructuring banks.

Since 2011 Igor Rodin has been an Engagement Partner of Advisory projects that successfully resulted in obtaining Government Tax Grants by seven industrial companies as “Olainfarm”,“Kronus”, “Bolderaja Ltd”, “Valmieras Stikla Škiedra “, “L-Ekspresis”, “Baltic Logistic Solutions”, Stora Enso Latvia.

Herman Van Rompuy, President Emeritus of the European Council and former Prime Minister of Belgium, is now President of the European Policy Centre – one of the leading think tanks of Brussels. He is also a visiting Professor in several universities (SciencesPo Paris, the College of Europe, UCL, KULeuven, Ugent, etc).

Herman Van Rompuy’s presidency of the EPC follows an impressive career in national and European politics; a former economist at the National Bank of Belgium, he began his political career in 1973 as national vice-president of his party's youth council, before holding various responsibilities within his party and in the Belgian Parliament and government, serving in turn as Senator (1988-1995), Secretary of State for Finance and Small Businesses (1988), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Budget (1993-1999), Member of Parliament (1995-2009), Minister of State (2004), and Speaker of the House of Representatives (2007-2008).

At the time of his first appointment as President of the European Council in 2009, he was Prime Minister of Belgium. He was the first full-time President to take office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force. In 2015, King Philippe II of Belgium ennobled Herman Van Rompuy by making him an earl.

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