Natalia is a legal professional with over 15 years of experience. She worked as an in-house Legal Counsel in major multinational companies, gaining experience in different areas, including commercial, competition, corporate, procurement, IT, IP, media, privacy, and others. Now she is working as a solo legal counsel focusing on intellectual property rights and protection which she would like to make her focus in the following years. She has lived in Hong Kong and is currently based in Singapore. During her life abroad she has found several insights on cultural diversity which have deepened her passion for the history of human rights, including artistic freedom of expression and its development in different countries. Natalia holds an LLM degree in Private International Law from Moscow State Academy of Law. She speaks Russian, English and French.