08.30 – 08.50 Keynote Address 1: Antonio Brufau, Chairman and CEO, REPSOL YPF and Vice President, GAS NATURAL SDG

Born 12th March, 1948, in Mollerussa (Lleida), Spain. Graduate in Economics by the University of Barcelona. He began his professional career at Arthur Andersen, where he was made a Partner and Audit Division Head. In 1988 he joined La Caixa as Assistant General Manager. Between 1999 and 2004 he held the position of Managing Director of La Caixa Group. In July, 1997 he was appointed Chairman of the Gas Natural Group. From 1996 and until he was named Repsol YPF’s Chairman and CEO in October, 2004, he was a member of the Company’s Board of Directors. At the present time, he is also Vice President of the Gas Natural Group.

During his long professional career, Antonio Brufau has been a part of several Boards of Directors, among them Enagas, Abertis, Aguas de Barcelona, Colonial and Caixa Holding, as well as CaixaBank France. He has been Chairman of Barcelona’s Círculo de Economía from 2002 until 2005, and member of the Executive Board of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from 2003 to 2005; as well as Member of the Board and Member of the Auditing Committee of Suez until 2006.

08.50 – 09.10 Keynote Address 2: Faisal Al-Suwaidi Chairman and CEO, QATARGAS OPERATING COMPANY LTD

Joined Qatar Petroleum (QP) as a Trainee clerk in October 1972. After one and a half years of training in Dukhan, he was sponsored by QP for further studies in the UK. In 1974, Mr. Al-Suwaidi joined Merton Technical College at Wimbledon and obtained his Diploma in Business Management in 1978. From 1978 to 1989 he held various Positions with QP’s Administration function leading to his appointment as an Administration Manager in 1989. In 1992, he was appointed Managing Director of QAFCO. In 1997 he became the Vice Chairman and CEO of Qatargas. Currently he holds the position of Vice Chairman of Qatargas 1, 2, 3, 4 and Laffan Refinery Project as well as Chairman and CEO of Qatargas Operating Company Ltd. Al-Suwaidi sits on a number of Boards in addition to Qatargas, these include; QP, QAFCO, RasGas, and Nakilat. Was born in 1954 and is married with six children.

13.45 – 14.05 Keynote Address 3: Alexey B. Miller, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Management Committee, GAZPROM

Alexey B. Miller was born on January 31, 1962, in Leningrad. He graduated from high school in 1979 and became a student of N. A. Voznesenskii Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute.

Upon graduation A. B. Miller was engineer-economist, the General planning division, LenNIIProekt - Leningrad Civil Construction Research and Design Institute. Alexey Miller was a post-graduate student at N. A. Voznesenskii Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute from 1986 to 1989, and obtained Ph. D. (Economics) degree in 1989.

In 1990 Mr. Miller was appointed Researcher, Leningrad Finance and Economics Institute, and then Head of Section, Committee on Economic Reform, Leningrad City Council. From 1991 to 1996 Alexey Miller served with the Committee for External Relations, St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office. He was Head, Markets Monitoring Section, Foreign Economic Relations Department. Later he was appointed head of the Department, and Deputy Chairman of the Committee. From 1996 to 1999 Mr. Miller was Director, Development and Investments, at Morskoy Port of St. Petersburg Open Joint Stock Company.
From 1999 to 2000 he served as General Director, Balttiiskaya Truboprovodnaya Sistema (Baltic Pipeline System). In 2000 Mr. Miller was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. He has served as Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom, since 2001.

Alexey Miller has been awarded with 4th Degree Order for the Outstanding Services to the Fatherland; the Medal of the Outstanding Services to the Fatherland II Degree Order; II Class Order of the Hungarian Republic Cross for his outstanding services to the energy cooperation; St. Mesrop Mashtots Order (Republic of Armenia); the Dostyk (Friendship) Order of the 2nd Degree (Republic of Kazakhstan); Sergiy Radonezhsky II Degree Order of the Russian Orthodox Church; Patriarchal Merit Certificate.

14.05 – 14.25 Keynote Address 4: Bernhard Reutersberg, CEO, E.ON RUHRGAS

Since March 2008 Dr. Reutersberg, born in 1954, has been Chairman of the Board of Management of E.ON Ruhrgas AG, which is responsible for gas business in the international E.ON energy group.

After studying business administration and obtaining his doctorate in 1985, Dr. Reutersberg started his career at Henkel KGaA. He was responsible for product management in various functions at the German headquarters and at international sites. In 1992, he joined Vaillant GmbH, a heating appliance manufacturer, becoming its deputy managing director in 1998.

Dr. Reutersberg has been working in the energy industry since 1999, starting as managing director of Bayernwerk-Vertriebsgesellschaft GmbH. In 2000, he became Chairman of the Management Board of E.ON Vertrieb GmbH. He was appointed to the Management Board of E.ON Energie AG in 2001 with responsibility for sales. In 2006, he moved to the Board of Management of E.ON Ruhrgas AG, likewise being responsible for sales.

Dr. Reutersberg has been Vice-President of the German Federation of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) since June 2008.