Svetlana Smirnova
Director of Integrated Marketing
Office of Strategic Communications & Relations
President’s Cabinet
Email: ssmirnova@ciis.edu
Svetlana (Sveta) is an essential member of the department, driving integrated marketing projects for strategic audiences and designing and executing campaigns to deliver against top-level University strategic goals. She combines high-level strategy with tactical, hands-on orchestration. She works in a cross-collaborative manner with the community to steward the CIIS brand and develop programs that support our mission and values.
Sveta holds master’s degrees in Linguistics and International Business, and comes to CIIS with a background in business consulting. She especially enjoys developing new processes and synergies across the University.
In her free time, Sveta creates amazing ceramics at a clay studio in San Francisco.