OREANDA-NEWS. National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia's central securities depository, reports that the annual general meeting of the members of the National Securities Market Association (NSMA), elected Eddie Astanin, NSD's Chairman of the Executive Board, to the Board of Directors of NSMA. 

Among other members of NSMA's Board of Directors were:
Alexander Abramov, Higher School of Economics;
Sergei Avramov, BNP PARIBAS;
Selim Agarzayev, Metallinvestbank;
Alexander Afanasyev, Moscow Exchange;
Pavel Burov, GPB (OJSC);
Konstantin Volkov, NSMA;
Andrei Golikov, NSMA;
Oleg Gorlinsky, JSC VTB Bank;
Vladimir Gusakov, AHML;
Yuri Dubin, ICMA Committee for CIS Countries;
Viktor Zhidkov, VESTA Investment Bank;
Maria Ivanova, NSD;
Yulia Karpova, Vnesheconombank;
Nikolai Katorzhnov, Otkritiye Bank;
Andrei Knyazev, GPB (OJSC);
Sergei Kozlov, VTB Bank 24;
Yakov Mirkin, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of RAS;
Mikhail Nedelsky, STATUS CJSC;
Roman Pivkov, Aricapital Asset Management Company;
Vladimir Reutov, Saint Petersburg Bank;
Alexei Rybnikov, CJSC SPIMEX;
Yuri Sizov, LIDER Asset Management Company;
Vasily Fyodorov, RONIN;
Alexander Filaretov, SPCEX;
Alexei Khavin, National Clearing Center;
Alexander Chumachenko, DCC;
Sergei Shvetsov, Bank of Russia.

Eddie Astanin has been Chairman of the Executive Board of NSD since 11 November 2010. Mr. Astanin is a member of NSD Supervisory Board. From 28 November 2009 he held the post of NDC Director General and Chairman of NDC Directorship. He joined NDC in 2005 as Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer. From 1994 till 2004 he held various positions at MICEX, from the Head of Operating Department to the Director of Government Securities and Money Market Division. Eddie Astanin graduated with honors from the Mozhaiskiy Military Engineering Institute (St. Petersburg) and the Finance Academy. Mr. Astanin is a Ph.D. in Technical Sciences.