Ksenia Semenova is a journalist, editor and public relations expert. She is currently Global Community Director of the Russian-language site The Question. She also contributes to the analytical firm Stratfor. Before that, she worked as a contributing writer for the Institute of Modern Russia. Her piece titled "A New Wave of Emigration: The Best Are Leaving" was selected as one of the institute's top 10 analyses of 2015. Until 2012, Ms. Semenova was chief editor of the New York office of Snob Magazine, covering a range of topics from sports to politics and writing a column about life in New York City