David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies |
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Posted: 21 Oct 2013 09:43 AM PDT
“Euro Elections 2014: Polls,
Politics, Popularity, and Protest” will be presented by Sarah Lambert,
a visiting EU fellow at Colorado European Union Center for Excellence, on
Friday, 25 October at10:00 a.m. in 238 HRCB.
Lambert joined the European Commission in 1995
after fifteen years as a foreign correspondent reporting from all over
Europe, including Brussels, and has been head of the political section in the
Madrid office since 2010.
She had previously worked as head of office in
London, responsible for government relations and public diplomacy in the UK,
where she started out in 2003 as head of political and regional affairs.
In 1999, she joined the policy unit of the
commission department responsible for development of the EU single market.
Her first job had been as spokeswoman and head
of communications in the private office of UK Commissioner Neil Kinnock.
Lambert received a degree in political science
at Bristol University and a post-graduate degree in journalism before joining
Reuters, leaving to help set up the London-based Independent newspaper, where she reported from
all over Europe on the collapse of communism and its aftermath.
A true European, she met her Spanish husband
in a bookshop in Luxembourg while waiting for a European Council meeting to
end. They married in the UK, and their two children were born in Belgium.
While in the U.S., she is researching issues
of citizenship, participatory democracy, and the democratic deficit in
Europe.
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