Her experience ranges from stakeholder engagement counsel for a consumer goods company around EU regulatory review of cosmetics ingredients safety to supporting a top UK law firm on internal and external communications around a US merger.
Fluent in French and Russian, Maria specialises in running cross-border campaigns, often involving sensitive geopolitical issues. She has delivered communications support for a national government as it prepared to open EU accession negotiations, advised a top Eastern European bank involved in complex litigation in London and supported a UK-France electricity interconnector project on profile-raising and issues management in the context of Brexit.
Prior to moving into communications, Maria trained in the Global Employer Services department at Deloitte and passed the Association of Taxation Technicians examinations.
Maria is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford (BA Japanese and Chinese Studies, First Class).