Introducing OGP’s Way Forward on Parliamentary Engagement
Over the course of 2021, the OGP Support Unit has conducted a review of its objectives, policy and practice on parliamentary engagement.
Lotte Geunis
Open Parliament Consultant
Lotte joined the Open Government Partnership in 2017 and worked on OGP’s parliamentary engagement. Prior to joining OGP, Lotte was a parliamentary advisor at UNDP’s Pacific Office, where she worked with parliaments and political parties on gender equality and civic engagement. Before that, she was the knowledge management coordinator of the AGORA Portal for Parliamentary Development at UNDP Brussels, supporting parliaments in Europe, Africa, the Arab States and Asia-Pacific. Lotte has also consulted for the World Bank’s programs on energy and environment and International IDEA.
Lotte has a BA in History and Politics from the University of Warwick and an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford. She is currently a PhD fellow at Maastricht University, where her research focuses on youth participation in public policy.
Lotte can be reached at lotte.geunis@opengovpartnership.org.
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