Elina Ribakova is a Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is responsible for a number of policy initiatives, ranging from global financial architecture to migration.

She is a co-founder of Migration Matters, an online resource on migration. She has over 15 years of experience in both the financial industry and policy making. Over the last seven years she held senior roles in economic research and strategy at a hedge fund, an institutional real asset manager, and a large international bank. Prior to moving to the financial industry, Elina worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (1999 – 2008).

She is a graduate of the University of Warwick and now lectures on international macroeconomics with policy and finance applications.

Fun-fact: Elina is a voracious reader of 20th century military books. “While at university I failed to show up at an exam as I was reading a spy book through the night, exam time and beyond…”