Elixabete Arrieta is a Programme Assistant in the Europe in the World Programme. Before joining the EPC, she completed a traineeship at the Political, Press, and Information Section of the European Economic & Trade Office (EU Office) in Taiwan. Prior to that, she gained experience as a research assistant at the EU-Taiwan Centre in Taipei and interned at the Economic Department of Casa Asia in Barcelona, Spain’s public diplomacy institution promoting relations with Asian countries. 
 
Elixabete obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Global Studies from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, focusing on Chinese affairs, its cross-strait policy, and its relations with the EU, gaining fluency in Chinese during her studies. This interest deepened during her Master’s Degree in Asia-Pacific Studies in a Global Context at Universitat Pompeu Fabra & National Taiwan University, while also expanding the scope of her expertise to the broader Indo-Pacific region, with a particular focus on Japan and its cooperation with the EU in innovation, which she explored in her final thesis. 
 
Her research interests include China's domestic and foreign affairs, particularly its cross-strait policy, as well as the EU's Indo-Pacific strategy.