PJSC ALROSA  yesterday announced the appointment of Elena Gangalo as the Company’s  Vice President.

Gangalo’s mandate includes supervision of the Company’s financial and economic policy;  improvement of the Group’s operational efficiency; cost optimisation for large-scale investment projects; and development of long-term  planning programmes.

The Company said that Gangalo’s professional experience -- “including her work in government agencies” -- will help  ALROSA improve profitability and “strengthen its leading market position”.

“In 1993–2008, Elena Gangalo, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, worked for government agencies and non-governmental organisations, including the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation (Minprirody of Russia),” ALROSA stated. “In 2008–2011, she was a Deputy Director of the Department of Economy and Finance at the Minprirody of Russia. Since July 2011, she was a Deputy Head of the Federal Service on Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. From September 9, 2015, until her new appointment, she was a Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation. Elena Gangalo is a General Director of the Far Eastern Leopards autonomous non-profit organisation.”