Aurelie Valtat is driving the digital communication strategy of the Council of the European Union. She is a self proclaimed European, lover, mother of two, avid traveller and into all things politics and tech.

She is an experienced political and corporate communications specialist, in both non-profit and intergovernmental organisations. A freelance journalist, copywriter and translator. Her current focus is on change management, mediation and delivering public innovation in the public sector. Before joining the European institutions, she was the online communications manager at EUROCONTROL, the European air traffic management agency. She also has previous experience in European lobbying (at PostEurop), in cultural heritage management (at UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre), in internal and external communications (at the Alliance Française in Brussels), and as a freelance journalist.

She holds an MA in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, a postgraduate degree in International Public Administration and a BA in Anthropology from the Sorbonne University.