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Maria Martisiute
Policy Analyst
Maria Martisiute is a Policy Analyst at the European Policy Centre focusing on transnationalisation and strategic analysis.

Her 10+ years of work experience spans NATO, EU, national administration in London and Vilnius, the industry, and NGOs. Before joining the EPC, Maria worked for NATO on reform in defence and security sectors with partners in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Her ideas, coupled with personal lead in restructuring the Directorate and shaping NATO’s cooperative security trust funds reform, proved critical, as did her volunteering efforts with Afghanistan (2021) and Ukraine (2022), letting her tap into complex crisis management environment.

Before that, she worked for the European Commission on EU’s strategic investments in three network infrastructures (TENs), focusing on innovative financing, impact assessment, Eastern Europe, and Rail Baltica project. Several times she accompanied and provided on the spot advice to the Commissioner for Transport during her missions in Lithuania. 

Maria lived in the UK, Spain and lately, Belgium. For 3 years she resided in the British-Japanese Chaucer College Canterbury (UK), leading English conversation classes and promoting people-to-people dialogue with international Japanese students. She also assisted Japanese students on subjects involving international relations and European integration.

Maria holds an MPhil degree in European Politics and Society from the University of Oxford and BA with Honours in Politics and International Relations with Spanish from the University of Kent in Canterbury. She spent one Erasmus year at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

PROGRAM

Transnationalisation

PROJECT

Project Presidency, EUropean Defence and Security Project (DefSecEU)

Areas of expertise

Foreign, security & defence policy, human security, enlargement, infrastructure, Russia, Eastern Partnership, Indo-Pacific, innovation

Current positions

Policy Analyst

Education

MPhil European Politics and Society, University of Oxford
BA Politics and International Relations with Spanish, University of Kent

Languages

English, Lithuanian, Spanish, French and Russian (intermediate), Japanese and Swedish (basic)

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Publications

Security & defence / COMMENTARY
Wanted: EU Commissioner for Defence and Security
By Maria Martisiute - 03/07/2024
Russia / EPC FLASH ANALYSIS
How should democracy respond to the farce of Putin’s re-election?
By Maria Martisiute - 18/03/2024


Contributions

Security & defence / INTERVIEW
Рютте призначили генсеком НАТО: чого чекати Україні
Maria Martisiute gave an interview to Podrobnosti about Mark Rutte and NATO.

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Рютте призначили генсеком НАТО: чого чекати Україні
01 October 2024 - ,
Security & defence /
Stoltenbergs avsked: ”Världen har blivit farligare – Nato starkare”
Maria Martisiute participated in a conversation with SverigesRadio on NATO and Stoltenberg. 

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Stoltenbergs avsked: ”Världen har blivit farligare – Nato starkare”
30 September 2024 - ,
Security & defence / INTERVIEW
The UN General Assembly has shown that it cannot solve the accumulated problems
Maria Martisiute gave an interview to Voice of America about the United Nations General Assembly and what it means for Ukraine.

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The UN General Assembly has shown that it cannot solve the accumulated problems
28 September 2024 - ,



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