Areas of professional expertise:

• International commercial arbitration
• International investment arbitration
• Public international law

Ekaterina graduated from the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Faculty of Law (2017) and later, in 2019, obtained a Master’s degree in private international law from the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). She also studied abroad at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany).

Besides the ICLRC, Ekaterina is a legal counsel at the RAC at RIMA, where she acts as a tribunal secretary in complex disputes, including international commercial arbitration, under various applicable laws. Ekaterina is also a member of the RAC committee for the technical review of drafts of final awards and orders, and is actively working to strengthen the RAC rules and procedures (i.e. she has contributed to the adoption of the 2021 RAC Arbitration Rules and prepared guides for arbitrators on different aspects of arbitration).

As part of her expert work, Ekaterina analyzes the ISDS reform (UNCITRAL Working Group III) and drafts legal opinions as well as participates in research projects on various issues of public international law.

Previously, Ekaterina worked in the Office of the Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights (Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation), tasked with implementation of ECtHR judgments into the Russian legal system, and also did an internship at the Council of Europe. Ekaterina also interned at an arbitral institution and a high-ranking law firm in Malaysia, where she gained skills in working with English law, commercial and investment disputes.

She is fluent in Russian and English, as well as French and German at an intermediate level.