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Political Risk And Due Diligence Consultant Resume

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New York, NY

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York, New York
Political Risk and Due Diligence Consultant,January 2011- Present

  • Research and develop risk analysis for a variety of high risk and non-transparent markets including but not limited to Russia/CIS, Switzerland and India.
  • Specialize in Russian industrial and financial sectors, secondary and tertiary sectors in oil and gas production and in network and group analysis of grey enterprises and off shore holdings.
  • Develop knowledge of Pan-European Business Networks.
  • Interact with and develop companys expert network through contacts in Eurasia and the Middle East.
  • Gather information in a variety of open source information networks including Factiva, LexisNexis, Bloomberg, Mergenet and SPARK (Russian Business Registry).
  • Manage analyst teams in transnational financial and risk investigations.

Confidential New York, New York
Historical Consultant to MyStory Project, September 2010- January, 2011

  • Edit and translate oral histories of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to the United States.
  • Conducted on conventions of historical writing for MyStory project volunteers.
  • Constructed database of outstanding stories for publication.

Confidential Budapest, Hungary
Research Assistant, June – September 2009

  • Take part in a variety of projects including contacting Russian scholars, editing a history of occupied Eastern European nations, researching in Radio Free Europe archives.

Confidential Montreal, Canada
Organizer/Researcher- McGill University Employee Campaign,May 2008- May 2009

  • Help organize and research legal and membership issues surrounding the unionization of McGill University Casual Workers
  • Served to address concerns of undergraduate research staff.
  • Outreached to members and conducted on campus surveys and awareness campaigns.

Confidential Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Research Assistant,May 2008 – May 2009

  • Engage in research projects for Professor Lorenz Luthi, a historian of Chinese, Russian, and American foreign policy. Work in Communist Party of the Soviet Union documents on relations with China and the “third world” as well as translating Russian language diplomatic biographies.

EDUCATION
Master of Studies in Modern British and European History with Distinction
Concentrations: Russian History, History of International Relations
Bachelors degree with First Class Honors,
Major: History, Minors: Political Science; Russian and Slavic Studies

SKILLS

Software and Database Systems
Excellent Knowledge of Microsoft Office including World, PowerPoint, Excel and Access
Experience conducting research in LexisNexis, Westlaw, Mergenet, EBSCO, Factiva, SPARK, Bloomberg and link analysis software.

Languages
Fluent in Written and Spoken Russian, Lower intermediate level written French and German

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