David Godfrey graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, summa cum laude, in 1987, with a B.A. in Political Science. He received a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1993.

Godfrey went on to a successful career as an attorney, practicing law with a number of prominent international law firms, including Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Chadbourne & Parke, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and White & Case. He also spent two years at the International Finance Corporation, the private investment arm of the World Bank.

Godfrey was hired as Special Counsel by Yukos Oil Company in April 2002; he was promoted to Vice President and General Counsel of Yukos Oil Company in January 2005.

Marc Fleischman is an advisor to global corporations, investment funds and foundations.

Fleischman spent 25 years in finance working in London, New York, Frankfurt, Mexico City and San Francisco. He held senior roles within the fixed income businesses at RBC, Citibank, Bear Sterns, Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Bank.

He was a Visiting Scholar at New York University in the International Relations program where he examined the connections and interplay between international relations and international business.

In addition to his roles at the Yukos Foundations, he currently serves on the board of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), a non-profit, non-governmental think tank based in London whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of political violence and radicalisation.

He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley.