Grant Akopyan

Assisting the Regional Adviser to prepare the third edition of the UNECE Glossary on trade facilitation terms and to coordinate its translation to Chinese, performing all tasks related to its successful publication (http://www.unece.org/index.php?id=53007). Preparation of trade policy documents, reports and concept papers, organization of international conferences and capacity building seminars, correspondence and communication, as well as drafting founding documents of a new international development fund.

Commercial developments, presentations and negotiations, client relationship management, translations to four languages, various back-office activities

Working during assembly, repetitions, performances and disassembly of the theatre performance "A Midsummer Night's Dream" of William Shakespeare, by Fomenko Theatre.

Financial audit and reporting, booking processing, night reception services, hotel back-office activities

Working during assembly, repetitions, performances and disassembly of the theatre performance "War and Peace" of Leo Tolstoy, by Fomenko Theatre.

Technical maintenance of the computer network and work stations, helpdesk activities for professors, administrative workers and students, database maintenance (CRM, LMS, CACS), web-site administration, technical support during culture and science events, relationship management with IT service providers (legal, technical and commercial aspects), deployment of new IT solutions, instruction to the users on the IT competences. The company was liquidated in 2018.

Assisting the Regional Adviser: organisation of international conferences on Trade Facilitation, Single Window and Data Harmonization, translation of official correspondence into three working languages of UNECE, legal analysis of Customs documents, corrections to the first edition of the “Trade Facilitation: An English-Russian Glossary of terms”.

Swiss Corporate Tax Law; WTO Law and Practice; European Contract Law; Econonomic Analysis of Law. Master thesis: Comparative analysis of risk in international sale of goods submitted to the Vienna Convention on the Contract of International Sale of Goods and the Incoterms 2020 edition.

Corporate Law; Competition Law; International Commercial Arbitration; Economic Penal Law. Master thesis: Forced execution of voting contract in the Swiss law.

Specialization in Russian Civil Law. Graduation thesis: Contract of international carriage of goods by sea: analysis of contractual security and regulatory risks for freight forwarders and maritime transporters according to the law applicable in the Russian Federation.