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LYUBA GALKINA Lyuba Galkina is a marketing consultant with over 15 years of experience in top management of such blue-chip international companies as Pepsi Cola, Nike in Russia and Europe. As a consultant she worked with Apple, Google, Unilever, Sesame Workshop, British Fashion Council and others. She graduated from the Moscow State University with a…

RALPH FIENNES Ralph Fiennes is an actor and director. Ralph has been a long-term supporter of Gift of Life in a practical and spiritual sense for many years. Notably, in 2017 he participated in Romeo & Juliet charity concert with Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna in aid of the foundation, held at the Southbank Centre’s Royal…

KATIE MELUA Georgian-born Katie Melua signed with Mike Batt’s record label Dramatico in September 2002. When she released her third album in 2007, she was top-selling UK-based female artist in the world. Katie’s career has been an exciting rollercoaster ride with several world tours, numerous awards and many special moments – for instance, performing for…

NIKA BELOTSERKOVSKAYA Veronika Belotserkovskaya (Nika Belotserkovskaya) is the publisher of the Sobaka.ru magazines, the owner of the Belonika & Chefs cookery school, an author of best-selling cookbooks, and a popular blogger. Nika studied as an art director and animator on a pilot course taught by Soviet art director Yuri Norstein at High Courses for Scriptwriters…

PRINCESS KATYA GALITZINE Princess Katya Galitzine was born in London with a Russian father and an English mother, former Dior Model, Jean Dawnay. George, her father, was three years old when his family escaped from Bolshevik Russia in 1919 and was raised and educated in England. Princess Katya was brought up as an English girl…

PROF. RAY POWLES Professor Ray Powles formed and ran one of the largest and most innovative blood cancer units worldwide at the Royal Marsden Hospital until 2003. In 1973 he performed the first successful bone marrow transplant in Europe. Professor Powles was appointed Commander of the British Empire CBE by the Queen in 2003. He…