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Rasa Ostrauskaite

OSCE Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats
Rasa Ostrauskaite is Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Vienna, 27 January 2017. (OSCE/Vera Djemelinskaia)

Rasa Ostrauskaite is Co-ordinator of Activities to Address Transnational Threats at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Having joined the OSCE in 2009, Rasa served as Deputy Director for Policy Support Service at the OSCE's Conflict Prevention Centre.  Previously she worked in various capacities at the European Union (EU) - at the EU Council’s Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit; as Political Advisor to the EU Special Representative (EUSR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Southern Caucasus and as Senior Political Advisor to the EUSR for the crisis in Georgia. Prior to that, Rasa worked for the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry both in Vilnius as well as in Lithuania’s Representations to the United Nations in New York and to the EU in Brussels.

Rasa holds a Master's degree in International Relations and European Studies and a Master of Philosophy in Political Science, both from the Central European University. Rasa has contributed to a number of publications on EU foreign and security policy and the OSCE, including two co-authored books.

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