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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