Peter Aven is a Russian banker and economist who served as Minister of Foreign Economic Relations for the Russian Federation (1991-1992). He holds a PhD in Economics from Moscow State University and is now Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa Bank, Russia's largest commercial bank. He is a trustee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Board of Directors of the New Economic School in
Moscow.Alfred Kokh is a writer and economist who was a Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation in the 1990s and a chief architect of Russia's privatisation. He holds a PhD in Economics from the St Petersburg Mathematics and Economics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is the author of A Crate of Vodka: An Insider View on the 20 Years That Shaped Modern Russia and The Selling of the Soviet Empire: Politics and Economics of Russia's Privatization.
