Natalya is a VIS Associate, a Power Systems Engineer and senior energy expert with an MSc in Public Administration Management.

Natalya has over 40 years of professional experience in the energy sector, of which 12 years in the electricity and power generation  sector.  Since 1994 she has worked as a consultant in a variety of technical assistance projects financed by IFIs (USAID, EU, World bank, EBRD, ADB, DEVCO). Before that, she was employed for 9 years in the Integrated Electricity Dispatcher’s Board of Central Asia.  She has been engaged as an expert, team leader, and project manager on numerous international consultancy and technical assistance projects, involving power sector operational improvement, regulation, tariff setting, development and implementation of energy policies and strategies, economic and financial analysis of energy projects, training and capacity building of utilities.

Natalya has assisted several utilities, including KievOblenergo -the electricity distribution company of Kiev-, the Montenegro Electricity Supply Company and Sakenergo- the vertically integrated electricity company of Georgia, to improve their commercial operations, with a focus on metering, billing, and collection systems. Natalya led a team of experts in a Technical Assistance Mission of the EU funded Global Technical Assistance Facility (GTAF) for capacity building of Electricity Regulatory Department of the Antimonopoly Agency of Tajikistan (AMS/ERD) and has also been involved in the preparation of revised electricity tariff methodology and tariff reviews, under the USAID funded PCA project. Natalya recently supported the Renewable Resources and Energy Efficiency Agency (R2E2)  of Armenia in reviewing the capacity of the local market for Heat Pumps and Battery Storage Systems.

Natalya has excellent knowledge of English and is also a fluent Russian speaker.