The EU-Russia Industrialists' Roundtable (IRT) is a business platform composed of leaders of companies from the EU and Russia. The main body is the IRT Council, which gathers business leaders around the same table for constructive discussions on EU-Russia economic relations.

The IRT was established in 1997 upon the suggestion of the political leaders meeting at an EU-Russia Summit. Since then, IRT provides a platform for business dialogue and has evolved into a full-fledged organisation that actively fosters discussions on bilateral economic relations.

Each year, the IRT invites business leaders, political decision makers and other stakeholders from the EU and Russia to an Annual Conference, where a wide range of topical business and industrial issues are debated.

IRT's main mission is to:

• maintain a regular dialogue between the business communities and EU and Russian political leaders on relevant policy issues in EU-Russia economic relations
• develop joint recommendations aimed at improving conditions for mutual trade and investment, business cooperation and partnership in order to support the creation of an EU-Russia common economic space
• present the joint recommendations and other ad-hoc positions to policy makers, in particular the participants of the EU-Russia Summits
• participate in relevant public policy debates on the basis of the joint recommendations
• set up a structure of thriving Task Forces contributing to EU-Russia sectoral dialogues

The IRT Council

The IRT Council is composed of prominent representatives of the EU and Russian business communities. The IRT Council meets regularly throughout the year to give strategic impetus to the IRT process in line with the IRT's mission and advocates IRT Joint Recommendations towards high-level political decision makers. The IRT Council is composed of:

• Russian side
  • Anatoly Chubais, IRT co-chairman (CEO, Rusnano)
  • Vladimir Evtushenkov (Chairman, AFK "Sistema")
  • Andrey Kostin (President & CEO, VTB)
  • Alexey Mordashov (Director General, Severstal)
  • Viktor Vekselberg (President, Skolkovo Foundation)
  • Oleg Belozerov (President, Russian Railways)
  • Andrey Melnichenko (Chairman, Eurochem)
  • Natalia Kasperskaya (Director General, Info Watch)
  • Andrey Ivaschenko (Chairman, ChemRaR)
  • Dmitry Pumpiansky (Chairman, TMK Group)
  • Alexander Shokhin (President, RSPP)
  • Alexander Bychkov (President-Director General, JSC IC Russ-Invest)
• EU side
  • Cees 't Hart, IRT co-chairman (President and CEO, Carlsberg)
  • Kim Fejfer (Member of Group Executive Board and CEO of APM Terminals of AP Moller Maersk)
  • Robert Dudley (Group CEO, BP p.l.c.)
  • Pascal Soriot (CEO, AstraZeneca)
  • Jean-Pierre Clamadieu (CEO, Solvay)
  • Markus Borchert (SVP, Head of Market Europe, Nokia)
  • Dimitris Ch. Copelouzos (Chairman & Managing Director, Copelouzos Group)
  • Frans van Houten (CEO, Philips)
• Observers
  • Sir Suma Chakrabarti (President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD)
  • Emma Marcegaglia (President, BUSINESSEUROPE)
  • Tadzio Schilling (CEO, Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation - AEB)
  • Viktor Dmitriev (CEO, Association of the Russian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers)
  • Garegin Tosunyan (President, Association of Russian Banks)
  • Nikolay Koshman (President, Builders Association of Russia)

Contact
IRT@kellencompany.com