Elina Ribakova

Elina Ribakova is a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Bruegel, and director of the International Affairs Program and vice president for foreign policy at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her previous positions include managing director and head of Europe, Middle East, and Africa Research at Deutsche Bank and director and chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth for Independent States at Citigroup. She started her career as an economist at the IMF in Washington, DC, where she spent nearly a decade working on fiscal policy in oil producing countries and crisis management.