Anastasiya Shapochkina is Founder and President of Eastern Circles. Anastasiya has 12 years of experience in consulting and energy industry, where she worked on companies, technologies and market analysis in the renewable energy, utilities, nuclear energy, and e-mobility. She led development of international cross-industry partnership research projects on these subjects and represented business in European industrial and research associations. Anastasiya is a lecturer on geopolitics in Sciences Po Paris since 2012, focusing on the role of business in the EU-Russia relations. Author of articles on the geopolitics and geoeconomics in Eastern Europe, she has regular TV and radio appearances. Anastasiya graduated from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.