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Elena Panfilova, Executive Director of TI Russia has been invited to speak about corruption in Russia.

Elena A. Panfilova is the founder and director of the Centre for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiative Transparency International – Russia since 1999. She graduated from the Political History Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Diplomatic Academy with the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. As an academic researcher and project manager, she worked for the Institute of Independent Social Studies (1989-1994) and the Institute for Economy in Transition (1994-1998) and the OECD (1999). She was also a political columnist for the “Open politics” magazine (1997-2000). Since 2007, Elena has been teaching academic courses of “Basics of anti-corruption policy” and “Anti-corruption Strategy” at the State University – Higher School of Economics (Moscow).

In 2009, Elena established the Laboratory for Anti-corruption Policy with the State University – Higher School of Economics and holds the position of Deputy Head of the Laboratory. She was also awarded the Eisenhower Fellowship. In February 2009, she was appointed as a member of the Russian Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights where she co-chairs a working group on legal issues and anti-corruption. Elena is a frequent visiting lecturer and speaker at numerous forums, conferences, TV programmes, and public meetings.

The main focus of Elena’s work in the last decade is the development of anti-corruption strategies for transition democracies, corruption research, anti-corruption, and freedom of information legislation drafting, monitoring of legislation implementation, monitoring and research of political corruption. She is the author of numerous articles and publications.

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