As Senior Communications officer at VSE, Marina Kazakova is responsible for strategic communications planning, knowledge dissemination and outreach to the key audiences that we seek to influence. Before joining VSE in 2018, Marina served as Communications Officer at the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) and as Journalist at the Word Magazine, Brussels. A newsperson at heart, Marina sees storytelling as the binding thread in her career. She is currently the Continental Europe Committee’s Representative to the NUJ’s New Media Industrial Council (NMIC) and Retention and Recruitment officer at the Brussels branch of the National Union of Journalists (UK and Eire).

Marina received a master’s degree in public relations from State Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, an advanced Master in Transmedia from Sint-Lukas Brussel, and is recently working on her PhD on lyric film-poetry at KU Leuven.