expert in EU funding
- 11 years of professional experience in Brussels also including 2 years ½ in EU institutions, 7 years in advice for EU projects
- Insider understanding of EU policy-making, expertise about EU budget and EU financial programmes, insights into regional, R&D, industrial & social EU policies
- Track record in policy analysis & research, consulting, negotiations, project management
- Professional experience of public relations in the Robert Schuman Foundation
- Oral and written communication skills, synthetic and analytic, developed during education, in French, English and German
- Online publications in French and English, experience of a blog
- Creativity, visual communication: photograph amateur
- French: mother tongue
- English: fluency (C2), close to native speaker level: professional and academic use, publications
- German: proficiency (C1)
- Dutch: beginner (A1)
- In 2007/2008, organisation of 32 sessions about the EU, in French middle and high schools, at part of the programme "Europe at School" for the Young Europeans Sciences Po (http://www.europe-ecole.fr/)
- Team management as part of the collective project "S(t)imulation Européenne" for the organisation Nouvelle Europe (cf. Interests) http://www.nouvelle-europe.eu/stimulation-europeenne.html
- Professional experience of negotiating compromise amendments in the European Parliament
- Key roles in 4 fictive negotiations during my master programmes on the European Rail Agency, the EU Budget, the European Agency for Chemicals, Crisis-management (Transnistria)
- Negotiation technics studied and practiced at the College of Europe
- Private courses of English to a 11th grade pupil
- Informative sessions about the EU in French high schools
- Training session on Power point for a SME executive
- Microsoft Office: daily use of Word and Outlook, master use of Power Point, advanced functions of Excel
- Use of social media (facebook, LinkedIn)
- Use of Adobe Professional, Picasa
