Elena Nikitina

Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
PhD in Economics, Associate Professor.

Member of the Russian delegation to the Arctic Council; Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Human and Global Environmental Change International Program; co-author of two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change.

Scientific interests: (1) economic aspects of global environmental problems; (2) international and national environmental management tools; (3) international cooperation in adapting socio-economic systems to the effects of climate change; (4) the world food problem.

Author of more than 150 scientific papers published in Russia and abroad.