Roman Emelyanov

This article is about the radio and television personality. For the Russian footballer, see Roman Yemelyanov.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alexandrovich and the family name is Emelyanov.

Roman Alexandrovich Emelyanov (Russian: Роман Александрович Емельянов), better known as simply Roman Emelyanov (Russian: Роман Емельянов) (born 3 June 1975 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian radio and television personality.

In 1995–1996, Emelyanov (also pronounced Yemelyanov in Russian) worked as an "AvtoRadio" musical program narrator and in 1998–1999 was a musical program narrator and creative director on "Radio 7". From 1999 until 2004, he became the show narrator and public relations manager at "ElDoradio" in Sankt Petersburg. In 2004 he moved to "Retro-FM" as a special programs producer and from 2007 to 2015, he was the Program Director of "Russkoe Radio" and "Hit FM".

In 2011, he became one of the judges of the musical talent competition Faktor A, the Russian version of The X Factor on Russia 1 television.

In 2016, Emelyanov became the president and chief executive officer of the European Media Group (EMG), the oldest and leading commercial radio broadcasting company in Russia. EMG - which is a subsidiary of Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UGMK) - owns most of the radio stations he worked for in the past, including "Radio 7", "Retro-FM" and "ElDoradio".