Elena Stoichkova was born on 5 April 1984 in Skopje. She finished high school at “Orce Nikolov” in 2002 and in June 2007 she graduated from the First Private University European University - Republic of Macedonia at the Faculty of Economics at the Department of Bank Management. She is currently enrolled in the postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics at the European University – Republic of Macedonia at the department Financial and Tax Management.
Her areas of scientific occupation include: financial instruments, financial analysis, financial organizations.

In the academic year of 2006/2007 she worked as a demonstrator at the Faculty of Economics for the subject of Securities and Portfolio Management.
In September 2007 she was elected Junior Teaching Assistant for a group of subjects in the field of Finance and Banking: Securities and Portfolio Management, Financial Management, Foreign Exchange Policy and Economics and Organization of Health and Pharmaceutical Organizations and Institutions.

She actively participated in few conferences and training courses, some of which are:
Conference on Enhancing Macedonian Export 2006, Ministry of economy of the Republic of Macedonia and the USAID Business Environment Activity, Skopje, March 2006
Conference on Business and Science for Security and Defense Industrial R&D, NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, Sofija, May 2009
Training course on Management of Security Related R&D in Support of Defense Industrial Transformation, NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, Skopje, June 2009
She is a coauthor of following research paper:
Ivanovski Zoran, Stoickova Elena: “Current economic crises and challenges for defense budgets”, Conference on Business and Science for Security and Defense Industrial R&D, May 2009