Věra ŘIHÁČKOVÁ-PACHTA

Věra ŘIHÁČKOVÁ-PACHTA

Advocacy Manager, Secretariat of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF)

Věra is an Advocacy Manager at the Secretariat of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Brussels. She is also an Associated research fellow at EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, a Prague based think-tank. Her areas of expertise include EU foreign policy with focus on Eastern Partnership countries, transformation and reform processes in the EU neighbourhood, EU democracy assistance and EU instruments of external action with focus on civil society support. From May 2014 to December 2015, she served as a member of the group of External Advisors on EU policies to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. She holds the 2014 PASOS Think Tank Publication Award for her paper Taking Stock of the Civil Society Funding in EaP Countries.