Bianca Faragau Tavares's Linkedin Analytics

Passionate about improving people's lives through EU policies. Committed to bringing the EU closer to people. Dedicated to achieving local impact. Devoted to turning policy learning into policy change. A public policy professional with global experience having lived and worked in Europe, the UK, the US and Brazil. A creative problem solver of public policy challenges translating data into policy insights, supporting policy learning and facilitating policy change, having worked with the EU institutions, city leaders, government representatives, local authorities and civil society. Constantly innovating new tools and methods for co-design and co-creation, peer learning, mentoring, peer review and policy transfer cross-country in European context. A natural communicator and community organiser, passionate about building partnerships and developing collaboration platforms to inspire policies for societal impact. An analytical thinker with sound experience in research, policy development, advocacy, project management, strategic communications and stakeholder engagement. A thorough event organiser with numerous successful events organised in Brussels and many other European cities. Author of several policy publications, policy reports, articles, studies and evaluations. For the last 15 years, active across public, private and non-profit sectors at EU level in the areas of cohesion policy, regional development and urban development policy; education, employment and social policy; childcare and youth policy; active ageing; social innovation; housing; social impact; migration & integration; Roma inclusion; poverty reduction & social inclusion; sustainability & inclusive growth; just transition policy. Native in Romanian and fluent in English, French and Portuguese with good knowledge of Spanish and Italian.