Brussels, Brussels Region, Belgium
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• Accomplished communications and brand manager, helping international organizations and…

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Licenses & Certifications

  • NATO Management Development Programme

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Volunteer Experience

  • Founder

    The Network

    - Present 26 years 8 months

    • Created 5,000-member, seven-city (Brussels, London, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rome), international online community, which acts as a personal incubator and mutual aid community for young professionals, both expatriate and indigenous.
    • Developed vision, values and sense of community for a free, high-trust, high-retention not-for-profit service.
    • Philosophy: at its inception, The Network (TN) was one of the only free, ethical and non-corporate spaces on members’ desktops; it…

    • Created 5,000-member, seven-city (Brussels, London, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rome), international online community, which acts as a personal incubator and mutual aid community for young professionals, both expatriate and indigenous.
    • Developed vision, values and sense of community for a free, high-trust, high-retention not-for-profit service.
    • Philosophy: at its inception, The Network (TN) was one of the only free, ethical and non-corporate spaces on members’ desktops; it is a tool which enables members to connect and help each other.
    • At peak, TN served 30-50 member-generated postings per day, similar to a members-only version of Craigslist (which offered to acquire TN in late 2000), and held annual offline networking events (parties) with attendance of 400-800 members.

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    A-Grade Representative, International Staff Committee

    NATO

    - 10 years 1 month

    • Elected in first year of service to represent employees in the staff association, defending the common interests of NATO’s International Staff.
    • Reelected in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016

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    Chairman, Acting Chairman, Vice Chairman

    Democrats Abroad

    - 9 years 1 month

    Politics

    • Launched Belgian branch of Democrats Abroad, the international wing of the Democratic Party.
    • Grew membership from zero to 550 U.S. citizens in nine months; increased to 1200 members in the next year.
    • Created leadership structure to handle operations, with bylaws, elected officers, appointed directors, and committees.
    • Broke records in press coverage, voter registration, membership, speed of certification with Democratic Party Committee Abroad (DPCA); DA Belgium known within…

    • Launched Belgian branch of Democrats Abroad, the international wing of the Democratic Party.
    • Grew membership from zero to 550 U.S. citizens in nine months; increased to 1200 members in the next year.
    • Created leadership structure to handle operations, with bylaws, elected officers, appointed directors, and committees.
    • Broke records in press coverage, voter registration, membership, speed of certification with Democratic Party Committee Abroad (DPCA); DA Belgium known within DPCA as “the Belgian Miracle.”
    • Authored DPCA’s Jumpstart Guide, a how-to manual for other new country start-ups; also supervised the development of the Campaign Finance Reform Guide for Dummies. Key negotiator in the Bylaws revision process.
    • Presided over hundreds of internal and external meetings and events aimed at increasing community activism, registering overseas voters, providing political education, raising funds and managing the organization.
    • Founding member of the DPCA Emerging Countries & Chapters mutual aid community and voting bloc in 2008. Orchestrated successful campaign for change within DPCA, which culminated in ECC candidates sweeping the internal elections.

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    Alumni Admissions Interviewer, Alumni Schools Committee

    Princeton University

    - 4 years 2 months

    Education

    • Interviewed candidates for admission to Princeton University on behalf of the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

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    Member, Comite de Liaison

    European Commission

    - 2 months

    • Appointed by the EC's administration to the three-person Comité de Liaison to provide orientation for the next group of 600 interns, and hand-over to the next Comité de Stagiaires.

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    Member, Comité de Stagiaires

    European Commission

    - 6 months

    • Elected to the four-member Comité de Stagiaires to look after the interests of 600 EC interns.

  • Member, Praktikantenkomitee

    Deutscher Bundestag

    - 1 year

    • Elected to three-member committee liaising between the Bundestag Internship Program's non-German aides and the Bundestag administration.

Honors & Awards

  • Medal of Distinction of the Lithuanian Army

    Chief of Defense of Lithuania

    • For efforts to assist NATO adopt Lithuania’s best practices in countering hostile disinformation in the field of IEA.

  • Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation of America Scholar

    Citizen’s Scholarship Foundation of America

  • National Achievement Scholar

    National Merit Scholarship Program

Languages

  • German

    Professional working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

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