Lena Raballand

Responsable du recrutement et de l'engagement communautaire

Lena Raballand is a Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex. Her research is focused on the intersection between state capture and political financing with a case study of South Africa under President Zuma. She is also a consultant for the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative (StAR), a joint UN Office on Drugs and Crime and World Bank project. 

Previously, she gained experience in the anti-corruption field through interning within the OECD’s Anti-Corruption Division in Paris. She also spent six months as an intern within the UNODC’s ‘Container Control’ Programme focused on illicit trafficking in the Black Sea and the South Caucasus region. She holds an MA in International Security Studies (University of Reading) and a Bachelor of Laws (King’s College London). Lena has also spent time in Moscow. In 2019, she completed a course on Russian Foreign Policy and its modern challenges at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) in Moscow. In 2018, she completed the Higher School of Economics in Moscow’s course on the European Union and Russia’s future.

Her areas of interest include corruption, political financing, asset recovery, and international security.

Outside of academia, Lena enjoys travelling, Formula One, and growing strawberries. 

Languages: French, English, Russian, Spanish