Eduard Voytenko | Edward's East Strategies

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Eduard
Voytenko
Managing Partner, Director
  • Owner of the consulting firm Baikal Communications Group (headquarter – Moscow)
  • Head of the Board of trustees of the Lake Baikal Foundation for Environmental Applications and Research
  • Founder of the Research Centre for Legal Expertise
  • PhD in Political Science, Master of Law. Associate Professor of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at the MGIMO Faculty of International Journalism, head of the Master‘s courses GRManagement and Lobbying Technologies at MGIMO and Fundamentals of GRactivity: History, Theory, Methodology, Tools at the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Law. Scientific supervisor of the MGIMO Business School Advanced training course GR and lobbying in Business and NGOs. Since 2023, he has been a visiting lecturer at Maqsut Narikbayev University (Kazakhstan)
  • Has over 15 years of professional analytical, law-making and lobbying experience in the IT, pharmaceutical, agricultural, tobacco, alcohol, fuel and energy industries as a hired expert in terms of promoting the business interests within the system of public authorities
  • Member of the sectorial cross-border lobbying association – the Society of European Affairs Professionals
  • Graduated from the Cherepovets Military Engineering Institute of Radio and Electronics as “Electronic Maintenance Engineer, translator of the Chinese language”; holds a degree in Media Management from the HSE University; defended the PhD thesis on the topic “Impact of the Media on the Social and Political Modernization Processes in Taiwan” in St. Petersburg State University; graduated from the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation with a master’s degree in Jurisprudence (“Legal Service in public authorities”)
  • Geography of responsibility: Central Asia, China and Mongolia