Alexandra Gérard is a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in European Politics and Society. She studied and worked in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, and completed her final semester at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Raised in a bicultural French-Polish environment and involved in the Young European Ambassadors initiative, her research focuses on Central and Eastern Europe and the EU’s relations with the post-Soviet space.