
Dr. Igor Yurgens

Dr. Igor Yurgens is Chairman of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development. Prior, Mr. Yurgens was the Executive Secretary of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs (RSPP), a leading business lobbying organization in Russia where he is now Vice President, and the Chairman of the Financial Markets Committee of the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 2000 to 2004, among other positions.
Dr. Yurgens is a member of the Public Chamber of Russia and Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council on Priority National Projects and Demographic Policy. He is a professor at the State University - Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
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- Amb. Nobuyasu Abe
- Hon. Keiichiro Asao
- Dr. Jacques Attali
- Rt. Hon. Lloyd Axworthy
- Foreign Min. Sartaj Aziz
- Amb. K. Shankar Bajpai
- Rt. Hon. Margaret Beckett, MP
- Mr. Lawrence Bender
- Mr. Samuel Berger
- Ms. Ela Bhatt
- Prime Min. Carl Bildt
- Amb. Robert Blackwill
- Dr. Hans Blix
- Foreign Min. Lakhdar Brahimi
- Sir Richard Branson
- Rt. Hon. Lord Des Browne
- Prime Min. Gro Brundtland
- Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Amb. Richard Burt
- Amb. Richard Butler
- Sir Walter Menzies Campbell
- President Fernando H. Cardoso
- Sec. Frank Carlucci
- President Jimmy Carter
- Foreign Min. Hikmet Çetin
- Amb. Naresh Chandra
- Mr. Chen Haosu
- Mr. Joseph Cirincione
- Rev. Richard Cizik
- Dr. Philip Coyle
- Prime Min. Massimo D'Alema
- President Frederik de Klerk
- Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala
- Dr. Anatoli Diakov
- Mr. Michael Douglas
- Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Amb. Mahmud Durrani
- Brigadier General (Ret.) Uzi Eilam
- Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei
- Amb. Tetsuya Endo
- Hon. Gareth Evans
- Amb. Nabil Fahmy
- Prime Min. Yasuo Fukuda
- Dr. Timothy Garton Ash
- Foreign Min. Hans-Dietrich Genscher
- Dr. Bates Gill
- President Mikhail Gorbachev
- Amb. Thomas Graham
- Sen. Chuck Hagel
- Amb. Efraim Halevy
- Hon. Lee Hamilton
- Hon. Lord David Hannay
- Hon. Yoshimasa Hayashi
- Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy
- Rt. Hon. Lord Douglas Hurd
- Ms. Lynne Hybels
- Amb. Wolfgang Ischinger
- Mr. Takahiko Ito
- Amb. Igor Ivanov
- Mr. Matake Kamiya
- Dr. Sergei Karaganov
- Gen. (Ret.) Jehangir Karamat
- Foreign Min. Khurshid Kasuri
- Foreign Min. Yoriko Kawaguchi
- Hon. Naoki Kazama
- Sen. J Robert Kerrey
- Amb. Shaharyar Khan
- Mr. Steve Killelea
- Dr. Konstantin Kosachev
- Dr. Martha Krebs
- Dr. Heinrich Kreft
- Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Roland Lajoie
- Prime Min. Ruud Lubbers
- Hon. Seiji Maehara
- Sen. Mikhail Margelov
- Col. Gen. (Ret.) Evgeny Maslin
- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Talat Masood
- Amb. Jack Matlock
- Mr. Robert McFarlane
- Gen. (Ret.) Merrill McPeak
- Amb. Yoshiki Mine
- Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian
- Sec. Gen. Amr Moussa
- Dr. Masashi Nishihara
- HM Queen Noor
- Gen. (Ret.) Bernard Norlain
- Edwin Frederick O'Brien
- Rt. Hon. Lord David Owen
- Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Pan Zhenqiang
- Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Guangqian Peng
- Dr. George Perkovich
- Amb. Thomas Pickering
- Ms. Valerie Plame Wilson
- Mr. Vladimir Pozner
- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Vasantha R. Raghavan
- President Fidel Ramos
- Amb. Sherry Rehman
- Defense Min. Alain Richard
- Rt. Hon. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, MP
- President Mary Robinson
- Prime Min. Michel Rocard
- Dr. Sergey Rogov
- Amb. Henrik Salander
- Ambassador Shri Shyam Saran
- Amb. Yukio Satoh
- Gen. (Ret.) Jack Sheehan
- Jennifer Allen Simons, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D.
- MP Jaswant Singh
- Mr. Jeffrey Skoll
- Dr. Javier Solana
- Rep. Song Min-soon
- Dr. K. Subrahmanyam
- Amb. Toshiyuki Takano
- Hon. Strobe Talbott
- Dr. Horst Teltschik
- Mr. John Thornton
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- ACM (Ret.) Shashindra Pal Tyagi
- Gen. (Ret.) Ehsan ul-Haq
- Dr. Evgeny Velikhov
- Hon. Eckart von Klaeden
- Amb. Wu Jianmin
- Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Noboru Yamaguchi
- Dr. Yang Jiemian
- Dr. Muhammad Yunus
- Dr. Igor Yurgens
- Hon. Uta Zapf
- President Ernesto Zedillo
- Dr. Philip D. Zelikow
- Gen. (Ret.) Anthony Zinni
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