Role
Director of Carnegie Europe. Advisor to Women in International Security Brussels (WIIS-Brussels), member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), and the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute.
Bio
A graduate of History at the University of Cambridge, she holds a Master's in European Studies and a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked as a researcher in Rome and at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, where she directed the Europe in the World program, focusing on European foreign policy , relations with Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean, and European Union enlargement.
In 2015, she joined the German Marshall Fund of the United States as a Senior Fellow, expanding her research to include European politics and the relationship between internal dynamics and Europe's international role. In 2018 and 2019, she participated in the Europe's Futures program at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. Since 2020, she has been the Director of Carnegie Europe and since 2021, she has been an honorary patron of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Her research areas include European politics and institutions, foreign and security policy, international relations , democracy, and human rights. In 2024, she was appointed to the Scientific Advisory Council of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.