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Sure: The chairman of the project company's board of directors is Gerhard Schröder.[75] As with the first pipeline, Schröder acted as a business lobbyist, repeatedly organizing meetings between Nord Stream's managing director Matthias Warnig and Schröder's SPD colleague and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, as well as between Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and Economics Minister Brigitte Zypries (SPD).[76][77]