Olga Shvarova is a global expert in commercialization, technology transfer, and innovation management. She is also a writer and Russian-English poetry translator. For several years, she supported a charitable organization, the Russian Poets Fund, which introduced contemporary Russian poetry to English-speaking audiences in the UK. Olga’s translations of Aleksandr Kabanov have appeared in Poetry International and POEM Magazine. Her other work has appeared in Poetry International, New Humanist, The Calvert Journal, and elsewhere.