Galina Kovalishina is the Head of the Сorporate Finance Department. A graduate from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute and the Moscow Institute of Aviation, she has been working at the IFS from 1998.

Ms. Kovalishina's major professional interests lie in the field of the banking sector and metallurgy analysis. Her responsibilities include studying of bank monitoring standards and practices, working out methods of credit companies' financial state evaluation, global metal price tendencies research and forecast based on theory and years-proven work experience.

Ms. Kovalishina has been awarded the Russian Federal Financial Markets Service certificate as a financial market expert in broker and dealer activities, securities management, investment funds, mutual funds and non-governmental investment funds management.

Ms. Kovalishina is fond of theology and likes walking.