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  Mr. Fridman is chairman of the Board of Directors and principal founder of the Alfa Group Consortium. He chairs the Board of Directors of two of the group’s companies — Alfa Bank, which is Russia’s largest privately-owned bank, and TNK-BP, formed by the joint venture between British Petroleum and Tyumen Oil Company. In 1988, he founded Alfa Eco, a trading company out of which Alfa Group Consortium developed. During the 1990s, he was an economic adviser to President Boris Yeltsin.

  
  

  
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  January 13, 2005

  The World in the 21st Century: Addressing New Threats and Challenges

  Speaker:	Sergey Ivanov, minister of defense, Russian Federation
  Introductory Speaker:	Mikhail Fridman, chairman of the board of directors, Alfa Bank
  Presider:	Richard N. Haass, president, Council on Foreign Relations

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