Alina Inayeh is currently advisor to GMF President Heather Conley. She joined GMF in 2007 as the director of the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, a project dedicated to strengthening cooperation and fostering development in the Black Sea region. She is an active practitioner in the field of international development and democratization, having run the Freedom House office in Ukraine in 2004 and the NDI office in Russia in 2000-2003, with a focus on civic education and political processes. She has trained NGOs throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union on issues related to NGO development and democratization. She was a leading civic activist in the 1990s in Romania and an active promoter of the NGO sector in the country. Inayeh received her bachelor’s degree in geology from the University of Bucharest and a master’s in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She is fluent in English and Russian in addition to her native Romanian.
Thursday 12
13.00 - 13.50
Achieving Europe’s energy transformation and autonomy in SouthEast Europe: Τhe balance of powers II
Sofitel Brussels Europe
The regions of the East Med and SouthEast Europe have long been considered key for Europe to become truly energy independent from autocratic actors. How is the EU and Member States effectively seeking allies and energy partnerships in its immediate neighborhood?