Sophie Falsini

DG for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (NEAR), Unit A1 (Rule of Law, Fundamental Rights and Democracy), Brussels. Drafting of a Staff Working Document assessing the impact of EU support for rule of law, focussing on interventions in the Balkans as well as the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood funded by the Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA I and II) and the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI).

•CoChair of Africa-Pacific-Caribbean Working Party at the Council of the EU (Post-Cotonou; negotiations with ACP countries; EU financial instruments; Accession of ACP-countries to Economic Partnership Agreements; Negotiations of the Overseas Association Decision; •National delegate of the Africa Working Party (humanitarian, political and human rights issues; civil and peace-keeping missions; •Participation to the legislative decision-making process (Foreign Affairs Council).

Security, Defence and Space Programme, Rome. • Monitoring and analysing military capabilities of EU member states and defence sector trends through open-source data gathering and forecasting (project funded by the European Defence Agency); • Drafting of mid-term and annual reports, compiled together with French, Greek and UK think tanks; • Contributing to research papers; Drafting articles for the journal "Affari Internazionali".

Human rights assistant at the . Russian-English translations of advocacy texts and interviews providing evidence for human rights violations during the Uzbek cotton harvest, website management, social media communication. Current Board member.

DG Justice and Consumers, Interinstitutional and International Coordination Unit, Brussels. •Research on human rights,justice reforms indicators in the Balkans/Eastern Europe; •Reporting the outcomes of high level meetings; Monitoring EU Macro-financial Assistance to Moldova and Ukraine; Representing the DG at Council and Parliamentary meetings and managing relations with different DGs. •Assessment of justice and consumer-related clauses in political and trade agreements

Researching and preparing background papers and briefing files, preparing advocacy meetings at different German Ministries, supporting the preparation of the “Human Rights Council Summit”.

Event management, analytical research, writing articles and press-reviews, managing the database, updating content on the website, translating Russian/ English/ German/ Italian/ French discussion papers.

Journalist

Student assistant to the international affairs office

Majors- European and Eastern European politics, migration, foreign policy, European and human rights law. Field research in Ukraine and Transnistria to analyse post-Euromaidan civil society organizations and their role in supporting internally displaced people

Languages and Int. Relations, Russian politics and culture, English, Geopolitics and History, International Economics and European Law