Oleg Bazaleev

Having been trained as a social anthropologist, Oleg has 20+ years of practical experience in facilitating sustainable development initiatives and working at the interface of the private sector with communities and governments. At present, Oleg oversees strategic and field-based community relations activities in Iraqi Kurdistan as Social Performance Manager at Crescent Petroleum oil and gas company. Earlier, Oleg led the Sustainable Development team at Nordgold, worked as Social Performance Manager for different projects at Royal Dutch Shell, led the Social Performance team at the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in the Russian Far East, worked as Managing Director of the regional corporate philanthropy foundation at TNK-BP, a Russia's third-largest oil producer at the time.