Dr. Tatiana Mitrova is the head of the Oil and Gas Department in the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ERI RAS). She has twenty years of experience in dealing with the development of Russian and global energy markets, including production, transportation, demand, energy policy, pricing, taxation and market restructuring. She also has broad experience in working with Russian ministries, as well as major Russian and international energy companies (Gazprom, Rosneft, TNK-BP, NOVATEK, RAO UES, Statoil, GDF SUEZ and Wintershall), and more than 120 publications in scientific and business journals and four books.