Irina Zhilina, Senior Advisor, Arctic Economic Council since 2021. She is responsible for communication with all member companies of the AEC. She facilitates event organisation and project management.
Being originally from Murmansk, Irina has lived, studied, and worked in four Arctic countries, including Iceland and Finland. Since 2011 she has been closely engaged with various projects connected to economic development and international cooperation in the Arctic. Previously she worked at the University of Tromsø for a research project devoted to Russian-Norwegian collaboration in resource management. She has also worked in science communication and project management at the Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi.
