Elina Aleynikova and Cristina M. Mariottini will tell their stories of study at Pitt and how they moved from Pittsburgh to international careers as an international arbitration specialist at White & Case in Paris and a Senior Legal Officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Please see their full bios below:

Elina Aleynikova is an associate in the International Arbitration Group of White & Case in Paris. Her practice include international commercial and investment arbitration. Her previous work includes heading the legal department of a food production holding in South Russia and an adviser to a start-up international logistics project launched by a major Russian infrastructure corporation. Ms. Aleynikova is a member of the Bars of New York and the Russian Federation. She holds a law degree from Rostov State Economic University, Rostov on Don, Russia, as well as LL.M. and J.D. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She also has a postgraduate degree in business law from Cergy-Pontoise University, where she currently lectures on arbitration.

Cristina M. Mariottini is a Legal Officer at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Prior to her current position, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. She holds a law degree (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. from the Università degli Studi di Milano, and received her LL.M. in 2011 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Dr. Mariottini is an associate member of the American Society of Comparative Law and a member of the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA). She is co-rapporteur of the the ILA Committee on the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law, and a member of the editorial board of the Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale.

We hope that you will join us in an informal discussion with students from a variety of backgrounds including the School of Law, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and Political Science.