Staff Members – European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

EPLO Staff

Lorenzo Conti

Senior Policy Officer

Marie Lena Groenewald

Policy Officer

Sonya Reines-Djivanides

Executive Director

Felicity Roach

Policy Officer

Henriette Umutesi

Operations & Finance Manager

Carlotta Venza

Programme Assistant

Help Desk

EPLO welcomes your enquiries about the EU and peacebuilding.

Issue	Staff Member
Civil Society Dialogue Network Funding for peacebuilding (Working Group)	Felicity Roach
Climate Crisis and Peacebuilding (Working Group) Peacebuilding and development EU-Africa Relations (Working Group) Youth, Peace and Security Academic Friends of EPLO	Lorenzo Angelini
Logistics for events organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network EPLO Brown Bag Lunch events EPLO Learning Corners, EPLO Book Conversations EPLO membership Steering Committee	Carlotta Venza
Gender, peace and security (Working Group) Climate crisis and peacebuilding (Working Group) Peacebuilding and development	Marie Lena Groenewald
Peacebuilding and EU institutions and policies (Working Group) Middle East and North Africa (Working Group) Mediation Eastern Neighbourhood & Western Balkans (Working Group) Latin America Newsletter	Lorenzo Conti
Logistics for events organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network EPLO’s social media accounts (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and YouTube) Communications Community of Practice (CCoP) Videos	Maria Cipriani
Financial management Administration	Henriette Humutesi
Civil Society Dialogue Network Steering Committee Member State advocacy	Sonya Reines-Djivanides

For all other enquiries, please send an e-mail to office(at)eplo.org.

EPLO Blog

Standing up against gender-based violence? – Mismatches between EU internal and foreign policy
Disclosing the hypocrisies between internal and external feminist ambitions around the debate on the EU Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence. By Marie Lena Groenewald In early February, EU institutions reached a political agreement on new rules to combat violence against women and domestic violence. While the directive is yet to be […]
Trends towards the defunding of European Peacebuilding: German ODA cuts as a case in point
By Philipp Kittman Following a protracted process, Germany finalised its federal budget for 2024 in late January, navigating through economic challenges marked by slowing growth. The resultant austerity course led to significant budget reductions, notably impacting official development assistance (ODA) and funding for peacebuilding. In relative terms, peacebuilding and other international cooperation initiatives rank as […]