Programme Coordinator, Wider Europe programme
English, Lithuanian, German (Intermediate)
Gabrielė Valodskaitė is the Wider Europe programme coordinator at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office.
Prior to joining ECFR, she was a research assistant at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on projects examining EU asylum and migration policy. She was also a Schuman trainee at the Directorate-General for Communication at the European Parliament. Before that, she was a communications intern at ECFR.
Valodskaitė holds an MSc in European and international governance from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a BA in European studies from Maastricht University. Her research interests include EU foreign policy, eastern Europe, and migration and asylum policy.
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