Katja Spanz is a transversal Project Officer working as part of the GRID, Economic Policy and Jobs & Skills units at CEPS.
Katja has experience in development project implementation and managed regional transnational projects in areas such as fundamental digital rights, workforce inclusion through technology, security cooperation and digital skills and gender.
At CEPS she contributes to the implementation and facilitation of research projects in different areas such as economic policy, artificial intelligence and the future of work.
Prior to joining CEPS, she worked as Programme Officer in the European Union Delegation to Argentina, where she gained extensive experience in project implementation and management of development projects. Additionally she worked on the joint EU-Argentina roadmap on digital transformation, bilateral artificial intelligence policy negotiation and academic cooperation between the EU and Argentina in digital transformation.
Katja has a Master’s degree in Politics and International Relations from Durham University in England and a BA(Hons) in International Management Studies, French and Spanish from the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she was an exchange student at the University of Eau Claire Wisconsin in the United States and completed an Erasmus exchange at the Universidad de Granada in Spain.
Mother tongue German, she is fluent in English and Spanish with intermediate skills in French.
