Staff Members – European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

EPLO Staff

Lorenzo Angelini

Senior Policy Officer

Maria Cipriani

Communications & Programme Officer

Lorenzo Conti

Senior Policy Officer

Laura Davis

Senior Associate, Gender, Peace and Security

Marie Lena Groenewald

Policy Assistant

Philipp Kittmann

Programme Assistant

Sonya Reines-Djivanides

Executive Director

Felicity Roach

Policy Officer

Henriette Umutesi

Operations & Finance Officer

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
Gender, peace and security (Working Group)	Laura Davis
Climate Crisis and Peacebuilding (Working Group) Peacebuilding and development EU-Africa Relations (Working Group) Youth, Peace and Security Academic Friends of EPLO	Lorenzo Angelini
Climate crisis and peacebuilding (Working Group) Gender, peace and security (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 EPLO Brown Bag Lunch events 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 EPLO membership Steering Committee Member State advocacy	Sonya Reines-Djivanides

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

EPLO Blog

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