Draft:Karina Dobrotvorskaya



Karina Dobrotvorskaya (now Mulgan) is a well-known writer, editor, business leader and publisher, originally based in Russia. She has written over 300 articles on film, theatre, history and fashion, and several books, and has held senior roles in global publishing.

Her first book 'Blockade Girls', on the siege of Leningrad, was published in 2012. Her second, an autobiographical novel 'Has anyone seen my girl' (2014) became a bestseller and was turned into a film in 2020. Her third book 'The Man of April', written with Julia Yakovleva, was a dystopian novel published in 2021. These books were written alongside a career in senior positions in Conde Nast, in Moscow, Paris and London.

She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Theatre Academy where she worked after graduation, becoming the youngest lecturer teaching theatre history. In 1992 she received a PhD in Art History. with a thesis dedicated to the theatrical culture of European modernism and the work of Isadora Duncan. In 1991 she married film critic and screenwriter Sergei Dobrovorsky (who she divorced several months before his death in 1997), published as a film creative and theatre critic in the magazines 'Seance', 'Art', 'Cinema', the newspaper Kommersant and other periodicals.

She moved to Moscow in 1997 when Russian Vogue was about to be launched by Conde Nast and became its culture editor. She stayed with Cone Nast for 23 years in various roles, including editor of Architectural Digest, Editorial Director of Vogue Russia and President of Conde Nast Russia. in 2013 she moved to Paris creating the brand development department of Conde Nast International and launching in new territories. In 2015 she moved to London and became New Markets President, and in 2018 was promoted to Executive Director of Editorial for Conde Nast international, a role she played until July 2021, overseeing launches of Vogue, Wired and other titles in many countries. She has subsequently held various roles including Global Creative Development Adviser for Stoli Group. She lectures on topics including fashion and media.

She has two children, Ivan Tarkhanov (b 1997) and Sophia Tarkhanova (b.2002). In 2023 she married Sir Geoff Mulgan, an academic in London, where she now lives.