Yelena Shliomenzon

She has over 16 years of combined experience working in the oil and gas industry. She specializes in energy policy, legislation and regulations, with particular emphasis on technical, environmental, fiscal, contractual and permitting requirements, regulatory compliance and assurance management practices, regulatory risk management, stakeholders' engagement strategies, bid rounds and host government contracts. She is involved in drafting petroleum regulations, upstream petroleum agreements and advising governments and NOCs on terms of reference for licensing rounds. She has been involved and led various consulting projects for IHS, working with governments and international oil companies. Prior to joining IHSM Yelena worked for Shell as Regulatory compliance business processes coordinator and for AGIP KCO as Senior regulatory compliance assurance coordinator. Before that Yelena was working for engineering company NIPIneftegas as a branch representative and lawyer. Yelena holds an L.L.B. (Distinction) from Kazakhstani university, L.L.M. (Commendation) from Kingston University, UK and Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies (Distinction) from Chartered Management Institute. She is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators and Energy Institute.