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

Junior Programme Officer

Jack Kennedy

Programme & Communications Assistant

Dearbhaile O’Callaghan

Policy Officer

Victoria Jiménez Baigorri

Programme Trainee

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
Civil Society Dialogue Network Steering Committee Member State advocacy	Sonya Reines-Djivanides
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 Academic Friends of EPLO	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	Jack Kennedy
Financial management Administration	Henriette Humutesi

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

EPLO Blog

Peacebuilding in the new European Parliament: a bad moon rising
By Jack Kennedy The European Parliament elections of 6-9 June shifted the chamber solidly to the right. As many commentators have noted, the gains of the far-right were less extensive than had been expected; however, they did make gains, as did the centre-right/right European People’s Party (EPP) grouping. This came largely at the expense of […]
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 […]