She also did postgraduate research and studies in natural resource economics and environmental policy at the London School of Economics in the late 1980s and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
DO NOT trust anyone from the former eastern bloc who studied in the West while the Iron Curtain was still standing (except for emigrants, of course). Normal people weren't even allowed to travel, shit, you had to get a permission to travel to other communist states, so anyone who got to study at the London School of Economics was a rabid Bolshevik in extremely high regard with the Party.
If this sounds far-fetched, remember that China does the exact same thing, sending their best and most loyal people to universities in the West to bring back skills to the regime.
DO NOT trust anyone from the former eastern bloc who studied in the West while the Iron Curtain was still standing (except for emigrants, of course). Normal people weren't even allowed to travel, shit, you had to get a permission to travel to other communist states, so anyone who got to study at the London School of Economics was a rabid Bolshevik in extremely high regard with the Party.
If this sounds far-fetched, remember that China does the exact same thing, sending their best and most loyal people to universities in the West to bring back skills to the regime.