Topic: Virtual European Embassy Visit

Presenter: FPA Webinar Event with Q&A

Speaker: Dearbhla Doyle

Head of the Political, Security and Development Section
Delegation of the European Union to the United States of America.

Dearbhla joined the EU Delegation in September 2018. An experienced diplomat, she has spent much of her career working for the Department of Foreign Affairs of Ireland. As an Irish Diplomat, she has worked in a range of policy areas including Press, Anglo- Irish, Political and European Affairs. She served as Vice Consul at the Consulate- General of Ireland in Shanghai from 2000 to 2003, and as Political Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Ireland in Rome from 2008-2011. She worked as the Irish European Correspondent from 2011 to 2014, where she headed the Political Secretariat and coordinated Ireland’s positions with regard to the European Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Dearbhla joined the European External Action Service in 2014 where she worked in the Department for Europe and Central Asia on the EU’s Eastern Partnership and Arctic policies, and on Strategic Communications. She served as Political Assistant to the Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia from 2016 to 2018.

A native of Dublin, Ireland, Dearbhla has a degree in International Commerce and Italian from University College Dublin, and spent a year on Erasmus at the Università degli Studi, Bologna. She has a Master of Business Studies from the U.C.D. Smurfit Graduate School of Business.

Zoom Event Information:
Speaker followed by question and answer session