Elizabeth Carlson
Intern, Europe and Central Asia Program
Elizabeth joined BIC in May 2008 as the Europe and Central Asia Intern. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in Russian and International Studies, concentrating in Global Economics. Her studies focused on international development policy and the former Soviet Union. She has traveled to over 20 countries and spent a year volunteering with HIV/AIDS projects, orphanages and children’s shelters, food distribution programs, and other development initiatives in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. During college, Elizabeth made three trips to Kazakhstan to teach English in Karaganda and Temirtau, study Russian and Kazakh languages in Almaty, and conduct research on corporate social projects and oil wealth distribution in Atyrau, Kyzylorda, Uralsk, and Astana. She has studied five languages but speaks Russian and bits of Kazakh best. Elizabeth is originally from Rockford, Illinois.
Azerbaijan
Europe/Central Asia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyz Republic
Mongolia
Russia
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development