Director, JSC Chateau Mukhrani, Georgia

After starting his career as a management consultant, Mr. Fleury has held various managerial positions in the food industry in Iran, Morocco, Egypt, Greece, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine. For twelve years, he served as the C.E.O of the Georgian Glass and Mineral Water Company (now IDS-Borjomi). In this capacity, Mr. Fleury has presided over the creation of the largest industrial group in the ex-Soviet Union in the field of Mineral Water, with several production units in Ukraine, Georgia and Russia.

In 2002, along with his Georgian partners, Mr. Fleury founded Chateau Mukhrani leading the revival of the most prestigious Georgian wine Estate of the nineteenth century. Jacques Fleury is a director of Georgian Wines and Spirits, a company acquired from Pernod-Ricard, a director of Chateau Mukhrani and a Board member of the Georgian Wine Association. In 2014, Mr. Fleury joined the Board of the International School of Economy of Tbilisi. He is by training an industrial engineer, with post graduate education in management from the University of Paris and the London School of Economics.

Before being appointed to lead the Oil Fund, Mr. Movsumov had an extensive career at the National Bank of Azerbaijan. He held several leading positions at the central bank, most recently serving as Executive Director, with responsibility for implementation of monetary policy. He was also a member of the National Bank's Investment Committee.

Mr. Movsumov is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of International Relations, where he studied international economics, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received his Master's in Public Administration. He was a Mason Fellow at Harvard, as well as recipient of the 2003 U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce Scholarship. Mr. Movsumov speaks English, French, Turkish, and Russian.

Günther Bächler, born 1953 in Basel, originally from Trub (Canton of Berne), is trained in Art and History of Art (University of Basel) as well as in Political Science, Regional Studies, and Modern History at the Free University Berlin, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Studies (summa cum laude) from the University of Bremen. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg where he focused his research on issues related to the East –West Conflict. Between 1988 and 2000 he was the founding director of the Swiss Peace Foundation, a Berne based independent scientific institute in the field of peace and conflict research.

In 1996 he got trained in mediation and negotiation at the Harvard Negotiation Programme and at the JFK School of Government, Cambridge MA. It is because of his experience in both, peace research, international relations, and conflict transformation that he became Head of the newly established Conflict Prevention and Transformation Division at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in January 2001. In May 2005 he was appointed as a Special Adviser for Peace Building in Nepal by the Swiss Foreign Ministry, Political Division IV - Human Security. He contributed successfully to the dynamic peace and constitution making process in the Himalayan country. In November 2007 he was nominated by the Swiss Foreign Ministry as Senior Adviser for Peace Building in Darfur, Sudan. From August 2009 onwards he served as a Senior Mediator in the same department. Until June 2010 he was actively involved in the Peace Talks on Darfur in Doha, Qatar.

Davit Lezhava holds BA degree from Faculty of Physics at Tbilisi State University and is a doctoral candidate of Physical Sciences. Mr. Lezhava also holds MA degree in Economic Growth from Williamson College, USA. David Lezhava has been a deputy Minister of Finance of Georgia Since October 2012. His recent positions include: Adviser of Executive Director at International Monetary Fund-Washington, USA; Chief economist, head of department of macroeconomic researches, member of committee of monetary policy, National Bank of Georgia and Project Coordinator UNDP project: Program and Administration System Upgrading of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, among others.