Zane Šime is an expert at Rīga Stradiņš University. She has completed research at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU CRIS) and the Academy of the Organisation for Security and Co operation in Europe (OSCE). She has acquired academic administration experience in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe (Bruges campus). Zane is an alumna of several Asia Europe Foundation programmes and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. She participated in the inaugural cohort of the Emerging Urban Leaders programme hosted by the Salzburg Global Seminar. Her previous work experience includes project implementation at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and in the Latvian civil service. She holds a doctoral degree from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); the title of her thesis is ‘The EU Science Diplomacy Towards the Southern Neighbourhood: Reappraising the EU Structural Diplomacy’. Zane is a graduate of KU Leuven and the University of Latvia. She is a co recipient of the Vilis Vītols Article Prize 2022 and a member of the 2020 class of ‘Top 40 Under 40 EU India/UK India Young Leaders’.
