Elina Ribakova

Elina Ribakova is an economist and expert on Emerging Markets in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Her field of expertise includes the Russian economy, US-Russia relations, macro-financial stability and macroeconomic research for investment decisions.

She is currently Chief Economist/Managing Director for EMEA at Deutsche Bank, where she provides actionable economic research to investors. Previously she held senior positions at an institutional asset manager and a macro hedge fund.

She is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, contributing to the Rethinking Global Finance and Global Migration initiatives.

Previously, Elina worked at the International Monetary Fund, focusing on issues of financial stability, crisis resolution, fiscal policy in commodity-producing countries and determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI). She also worked as Chief Economist for Russia/CIS at Citigroup.

She is a member of the Expert Committee for the Development of Creative Industries at Calvert Forum Think Tank. She is also a co-founder of Migration Matters - video-based multidisciplinary resource on migration. She is a board member of Certus, a leading Policy Think Tank in Latvia. She lectured on international macro with finance applications at Chicago Booth, Higher School of Economics, New Economics School, European University of St. Petersburg and Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Elina was a Foreign Policy Interrupted Fellow, holder of a Chevening Scholarship and Open Society Foundations alumnus.

She holds an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick where she was the sole recipient in her year of the Shiv Nath Prize and a BSc in Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga.

Elina is a regular contributor to the media, providing expert topical analysis of economic developments in the EMEA region to a range of leading broadcast and print media outlets including Bloomberg, Bloomberg TV, Reuters and Reuters TV, Vedomosti, the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal.