Speaker

Žanna Němcova is the co-founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and the codirector of the Boris Nemtsov Academic Centre for the Study of Russia at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, Czechia. She has over nine years of experience running educational and socially impactful projects, including the MA program „Russian Studies – Boris Nemtsov Educational Program“ accredited at Charles University. From 2015 to 2020, she reported on world political affairs and hosted the Russian-language television program “Nemtsova. Interview” at Deutsche Welle, the German public broadcaster. Previously, she worked for RBC, a privately-owned Russian business television network, covering financial markets and interviewing top politicians and leading economists. She was the co-host and the executive producer of Another Russia, a narrative podcast produced by Crooked Media. Němcova is the author of the Russian-language bestselling book “My Father’s Daughter.”