Leonard Blavatnik

Chairman, Board of Directors of Access Industries

Len Blavatnik is a major American industrialist with global interests in three sectors: natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, and real estate. He is the founder and Chairman of Access Industries, a privately held, U.S. industrial group through which he controls his holdings. Incorporated in 1986, Access Industries is today an international industrial concern with strategic investments in the United States, Europe and South America.

Mr. Blavatnik, a U.S. citizen, was raised in Russia and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1978 before becoming a citizen in 1984. Mr. Blavatnik received his Master's degree from Columbia University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mr. Blavatnik serves as a director of various companies in the Access portfolio including TNK-BP (a European based vertically integrated oil company) and UC RUSAL (the largest vertically integrated aluminum producer in the world) and maintains a significant stake in LyondellBasell Industries (the world's third-largest independent chemical company with major production facilities in Europe and the United States).

Mr. Blavatnik provides financial support and remains engaged in numerous educational pursuits. In addition to corporate directorships, Mr. Blavatnik sits on boards at Cambridge and Tel Aviv University, and he is a member of Harvard University's Committee on University Resources.

An active philanthropist, Mr. Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have been generous supporters of The National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Prince's Trust and numerous other leading cultural and charity institutions. Mr. Blavatnik also sits on, inter alia, the board of directors of the 92nd Street Y in New York, The White Nights Foundation of America and The Center for Jewish History in New York. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of The New York Academy of Sciences, and a Trustee of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In 2007, Mr. Blavatnik created the New York Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists to acknowledge the excellence of the most noteworthy young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

In 2010, Mr. Blavatnik committed £75 million to establish the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. The Blavatnik School of Government will train outstanding graduates from across the world in the skills and responsibilities of government. Mr. Blavatnik's gift is one of the most generous in Oxford University's 900-year history.