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Dr. Simon Kukes was appointed a director on January 1, 2005. Dr. Kukes is an American citizen. Dr. Kukes is the CEO at Samaru Nulta, a Russian oil company, partnering with Amerada Hess, a U.S. based international oil company. He was President and Chief Executive of Tyumen Oil Company (TNK) from 1998 until its merger with British Petroleum (BP) in 2003. He then joined Yukos Oil as chairman. He also served as chief executive of Yukos from 2003 until June 2004. In 1999, he was voted one of the Top 10 Central European Executives by the Wall Street Journal Europe and in 2003 he was named by The Financial Times and PricewaterhouseCoopers as one of the 64 most respected business leaders in the world. He owns approximately 8% of the ordinary shares of Amarin. Dr. Kukes has a primary degree in Chemical Engineering from the Institute for Chemical Technology, Moscow and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Academy of Sciences, Moscow and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Rice University, Houston, Texas. He is the holder of more than 130 patents and has published more than 60 scientific papers. He is currently a member of the Council of Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University in New York. | 