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Penny Sarakenidou
Research Executive, Brussels
Penny is a Research Executive in the Tech cluster.
Having worked as a lawyer for almost four years, she made her Brussels debut by joining the Greek Permanent Representation as a trainee at the Justice and Home Affairs department. She then pursued a traineeship at the Council’s Legal Service, where she mainly focused on data protection and migration files.
She recently graduated with an Advanced LLM in International and European Law (Specialisation in European Business law) from KU Leuven. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in law and a master’s degree in International and European Legal Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
She is fluent in English and Greek, has good knowledge of French and Italian, and a basic understanding of German.