As a Consultant at Political Intelligence Brussels, Maria specialises in events organisation and trade association management across sectors, such as food, health, and PA interest representative bodies. Her role involves planning and coordinating impactful events from A to Z, including policy events and General Assemblies of associations, managing membership and governance bodies and supporting internal & external communications. Before joining PI as a policy comms intern, she was a trainee at the Council of the European Union, focusing on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, and worked as an EU policy, comms and events assistant, as part of the secretariat of a trade association.
Maria holds a Master’s degree in European Studies from KU Leuven and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from University of Piraeus. A native Greek speaker, she is also fluent in English and has good command of French and Spanish.