
Diana Potjomkina
Senior Associate Researcher
Diana Potjomkina is a Senior Associate Researcher at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on the project “The contribution of global and regional multistakeholder mechanisms in improving global governance (GREMLIN: Global and REgional MuLtistakeholder INstitutions)”, which is a collaboration between the VUB, the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) and the Centre for EU Studies at the University of Ghent. She teaches a seminar course on “Civil Society in the European Union” at the Ghent University. She has a Master’s degree from the Riga Stradins University and was a Fulbright fellow at the George Mason University. Diana gained professional experience at the European Movement – Latvia and Latvian Institute of International Affairs and taught at the Riga Stradins University, as well as contributed as an expert to three opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee.
Diana’s research interests include multistakeholderism, inclusion/exclusion dynamics, the European Union’s external trade policy, and other external policies of the EU
Research areas
Featured publications
Meta-participation in multistakeholder mechanisms: Peruvian civil society and the free trade agreement with the EU
Forging their path in the Brussels bubble? Civil society resistance within the domestic advisory groups created under the EU trade agreements
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Study - Domestic advisory groups in EU trade agreements
Participation of Civil Society in EU Trade Policy Making: How Inclusive is Inclusion?
Policy Brief - The Challenge of COVID-19 and the Need for Meaningful Inclusion
Projects
GREMLIN: The Contribution of ‘regional’ multistakeholders mechanisms in improving global governance
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