CEO, Fund for Infrastructure and Educational Programs / Deputy Chairman, RUSNANO
First Deputy СEO of Foundation «National Intellectual Resource» («Innopraktika»)
Director General, Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE)
Research associate professor and Senior scientific consultant at BioSense Institute, University of Novi Sad
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Head of the Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation
Vice President of VEB.RF on Innovations and Digital Economy
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation
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Director at Development Agency of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Neuroscientist (PhD in Neuroscience from Georg-August University and Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany. Postdoctorate specialization at Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany) turned bioengineer (Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA, Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering. In BioSense, she is focused on cellular agriculture (application of tissue engineering for food production), bioengineering in alternative protein field, biosensors and microfluidic platforms. Ivana is the coordinator of two EU Horizon2020 projects: H2020 WIDESPREAD Twinning DRAGON GA 810775, H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019 IPANEMA No. 872662 and Project leader of the REALSENSE1 - Monitoring of cell culture parameters using sensors for biomass and nutrients/metabolites in media: Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) approach, Good Food Institute 2018 Competitive Grant Program.
October 1995 – April 1996 - Osaka University, Japan
May-August 2000 – Harvard University, the U.S.A.
1991 – 1992 – Teacher of History, № 33 secondary school, Yerevan
1992-1994 – Senior Specialist, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Armenia to Russia
1994-1995 – Second Secretary, Embassy of Armenia to Russia
1996 – 1997 – First Secretary, Department of CIS countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
1997 – 1998 – First Secretary, Embassy of Armenia to Russia
1998 – 2000 – Counselor, Embassy of Armenia to Russia
2001 – 2016 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Eurasian media group”
2017 - Appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to the Russian Federation, Presidential Decree of March 10, 2017.
Languages: Armenian, Russian, English
Author of ten academic works, including monographs, and co-author of two publications.
The Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE) is a non-commercial state organization set up by the Russian government. The company provides loans to small innovative enterprises (SIE) with the objective of tapping the huge scientific/technical assets of Russia into economic development and to promote high-tech entrepreneurship. FASIE takes part in a number of bilateral & multilateral international programs; it served as National Contact Point for the EU FP7 & has been just appointed as the Horizon 2020 National Contact Point in Russia.
Skolkovo Foundation operates as a non-profit organization foundation for development of the Centre for Elaboration and commercialization of new technologies in Russian economy and generation of competitive developments. The foundation was founded in 2010 and is based in Moscow, the Russian Federation.
