• A political analyst from the heart of European Union lawmaking.
  
• A specialist in the Foreign & Political Affairs of the European Union with acknowledged expertise in Mediterranean Policy, Cyprus, EU/Turkey relations and the Middle East.
  
• 10 years advising in the European Parliament with an extensive network of contacts and professional relationships in the European Union institutions and at the highest level in member state governments.

Expertise
Skills that include coalition building, issue and crisis management, message development and media relations, lobbying, advocacy, evaluating success and failure, campaign management and strategy building.

Background

• Principal Advisor to Pauline Green MEP (1989-99) - Leader of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.
  
• Political Advisor in the UK Co-operative Movement at local and national levels.
  
• Professional experience as a Community Development Worker and an Adult Education Lecturer with UK Local Authorities and NGO's.
  
• Educated and brought up in London, England and now based in Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus.
  
• A graduate Civil Engineer (Polytechnic of Central London 1972).
  Post Graduate Studies in European Law (Kings College, London)