Ellen Pinchuk is the Director of International Projects for Mikhailov and Partners, a leading strategic communications agency in Russia.

She hails from Los Angeles, California, but has been based in Moscow since 1991.  For many years, she was a television reporter for Canadian Television (CTV) and then Bloomberg News.  She had the opportunity to cover a wide range of stories, from politics to business, from culture to science.  She twice interviewed Vladimir Putin, and sat down with other senior figures including Dmitry Medvedev, Viktor Yushchenko, Alexey Kudrin, Elvira Nabiullina, Sergey Ivanov, Yulia Timoshenko, Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat.  She reported from conflict zones including Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza and Chechnya and was the recipient of two New York Press Club awards.

Ellen holds a Bachelor's degree in History and Literature and a Master's degree in history from Harvard University.

Mikhailov and Partners is one of the oldest Russian public relations firms, established in 1993.  The company offers a wide range of services  from communications strategy to positioning on regional and international markets to crisis management and deals support (IPOs, private placements, M&As).  In 2009, Mikhailov & Partners launched an exclusive strategic partnership with Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications consultancy, for Russia and the CIS.