Elise has a background in European affairs and International relations and has mainly focused until now on the relations between the EU and the African continent. She previously worked for the Brussels-based think tank Egmont Institute designing and implementing training for civil servants, diplomats and civilian crisis management experts as part of Belgium’s diplomatic and foreign affairs policies. She then spent three years in Kigali, Rwanda as part of an international team of investigators looking at the role of France in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, a topic that led her to think about the common management of historical memory. She loves to look at the human factor in the different fields she specializes in and has strong quality of team and project management.