Yulia Mitusova is a Consultant at the World Bank under the IBRD ECFS RAS program focusing on food security in Central Asia. Yulia has seven years of international trade and business consulting experience on behalf of the Danish Embassy in Moscow, Russia. She worked on multiple projects within the energy efficiency, food and agriculture sectors and has extensive experience developing market entry strategies and advising on political and economic risk in international markets. Yulia holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management with a concentration in Management Consulting. In 2015 she spent several weeks in Angola, Africa, evaluating ExxonMobil’s Rural Development Program with a focus on sustainable agriculture and access to markets. Yulia specializes in Russia and the CIS, Europe and West Africa regions.