Eleanor is Managing Director of Montfort Eurasia, based in Tashkent Uzbekistan.

For the last two years she has advised Uzbekistan’s largest private company on international communications as it prepared to raise international capital.

In London, Eleanor worked for a large London PR agency, helping build up their litigation and disputes offer across Europe. Prior to entering PR, Eleanor worked with a corporate intelligence agency focused on litigation and disputes and UHNW advisory, with work covering the CIS, India, Africa and MENA regions. She has also worked at Euromoney Conferences.

For over 11 years, Eleanor has been a trustee of a charity in Georgia and has spoken widely on the region, including at the United States Military Academy (West Point). She has also monitored elections in Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine.

Eleanor has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Durham University, and received the Kathryn Davis Scholarship for Peace at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. She has lived in Moscow and Tbilisi, and speaks Russian.

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