Dr. Ieva Grumbinaitė

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Dr Ieva Grumbinaitė defended her PhD dissertation on the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU at the European University Institute in 2020. She completed an MSc in Public Administration at Leiden University. Ieva lectured at the University of Vienna and Lorenzo dei Medici Institute in Florene, completed a traineeship at the European Parliament and contributed to several research projects at the EUI, Leiden University, and Free University in Berlin. Since 2019 she works as a public policy analyst providing recommendations to the European Commission.

Ieva‘s academic interests include European integration, EU institutions and decision-making processes, EU higher education policy.

Conference papers and worshops

• 2021. Workshop: Small States in EU Policy-Making: Strategies, Challenges, Opportunities, University of Luxembourg, 17-18.6; Paper presentation: “Bringing the European Union closer to the Member States? The impact of the rotating EU Council presidency on the administrations of small states”
• 2019. ECPR General Conference, 4-7.9 Wroclaw; Paper presentation: “Obligation or Socialisation? Attendance to Ministerial Meetings of the Council of the EU and the Rotating Presidency”
• 2019. European Union Studies Working Group, European University Institute, 20.02. Florence; Paper presentation: “Obligation or Socialization? Attendance to Ministerial Meetings
  of the Council of the EU and the Rotating Presidency”
• 2018. Understanding the EU´s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy Workshop, European University Institute, 21-22.5 Florence; Paper presentation: “If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It? The Limited Benefits of the Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU”
• 2018. EPSA Annual Conference, 21-23.6 Vienna; Paper presentation: “The limited benefits of the Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU”
• 2018. ECPR General Conference, 22-25.8 Hamburg; Paper presentation: “Not much beyond the common programme? The limited benefits of the Trio Presidency of the Council of the EU”
• 2016. ECPR General Conference, 7-10.9 Prague; ECPR Graduate Student Conference, 10-13.07 Tartu; Paper presentations: “The Impact of the European Union Council Presidency on Public Opinion in the Member States: Improving the Knowledge of the EU?