Anna Romanovskaya graduated in 1995 from Moscow State Pedagogical University with honours as a teacher of biology and chemistry. In 2000 she defended her PhD thesis for the degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences ‘Anthropogenic emission of N2O by agricultural lands of Russia’, and in 2008, she defended her thesis for the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences ‘Fundamentals of monitoring anthropogenic emissions and runoffs of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4) in livestock, agricultural land use and land use change in Russia’. In 2016, she was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 

Since 2000, she worked at the state Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, director since 2017.  

Under A.A. Romanovskaya’s leadership, annual assessments of anthropogenic fluxes of greenhouse gases and other climate-active substances on the territory of Russia are carried out, which are used both in scientific research and in the national reporting of the Russian Federation under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. She has considerable international experience in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the expert groups of the UNFCCC. 

She has published more than 140 scientific papers in Russian and foreign leading peer-reviewed publications.