Ms. Assya Kavrakova is the Executive Director of the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) since 2014. ECAS is an international non-profit association, based in Brussels, with a pan-European membership and 35 years of experience in empowering citizens in order to create a more inclusive and stronger European Union.
With twenty-five years of experience in senior management positions leading national and international teams of experts and NGOs, Assya has thorough knowledge of the European Citizenship, EU law, EU structural and Cohesion Policy, Schengen regulatory framework, EU external policy decision-making, EU enlargement policy and leverage, European Rights framework, EU civic participation formal and informal mechanisms. She has an extensive knowledge of CEE civil society and regional development issues and in-depth knowledge of the post-accession state of affairs in the ten Member States from CEE.
Keen promoter of digital empowerment of citizens, with a forward-looking attitude towards digital democracy and digital management, Assya has a Certificate of the Solvay Brussels school of Economics and Management for a QiLeader (Leading authentically in digital times).
She is a member of the European Commission’s Just Transition Platform (JTP) Working Group on Stakeholder Engagement.
Assya Kavrakova is an European Citizens’ Initiative Ambassador and the project supervisor of the European citizens’ initiative online collaborative platform, which ECAS operates on behalf of and under contract to the European Commission.
