Alena is a seasoned strategic communications veteran with over 20 years of experience in cross-border projects within pharma, energy & transport. Her core experience is international communications advisory, overseeing and driving integrated public and community relations.

In the last decade, Alena advised the largest nuclear corporation in the world, ROSATOM, both as an external and internal PR manager as it expanded its operations in Asia and Africa. Her key focus was corporate communications, community outreach and public affairs in the Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Alena has worked with mostly large corporations such as Novartis, Janssen, Lukoil, Uralkali, Aeroflot, Moscow Transport, Nestlé, VTB Bank, Alfa Bank. She has experience with promoting NGO’s public agenda for CFA Institute and Tobacco Free Kids.

Alena has a specialist degree in Public Relations from MGIMO University. She lived in Moscow, Kyiv and Johannesburg and speaks Russian, English and French.