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Natalya Gudz
, Energy Company
Vienna, Austria
More than 10 years’ experience in Public Policy research, monitoring, and analysis
5 years’ experience in project monitoring and legal support
Synergy of theoretical and practical skills of the EU policies: backed by working for the energy company, PhD Thesis on the EU negotiations and doing research at the Austrian think-tank on diverse policies (IHS)
Consulting activities for ICMPD, Wikistrat
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Area of Expertise:
  • Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
  • Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
Professional Experience:
For the last 5 years I have been working for the energy company, where I responsible for monitoring EU legislative and regulatory developments within the energy sector, maintaining an organisation-wide project database in energy sector and developing systems and processes for improved project monitoring and evaluation.

From 2009-2013 – working for the Austrian think-tank Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) at the Political Affairs Department on the research projects:
1) „Assessing unity of the European Union in international climate change negotiations: Copenhagen and Cancun”
• Evaluation of strategic positions on controversial issues (CO2 targets and CO2 certificates, and financial contributions to the developing countries) with qualitative and quantitative methods
• Assessment of the EU legal framework for international negotiations on climate change
• Measuring impact of politicization on the preference cohesion among the Member States
Achieved:
• Developed charts of energy mix of 27 EU Member States, with their strengths/weaknesses and capacities for compromise-building on controversial climate change issues

2) International Governance and Domestic Politics: Do Parties Matter Beyond the Nation State?” (Grant of the Austrian National Bank)
• Analysis of the French and German government positions towards climate change policy and the reduction of agricultural subsidies in European and global negotiations (1990–2009)
• Assessment of political parties’ impact on formulating national position in European and international negotiations
Achieved:
• Elaborated preferences for each French and German political party for 13 controversial issues (mini case-studies)
• Filtered “corridors of national interests” on environmental and agricultural issues

2008-2009 - Traineeship in the European Commission, DG – Research, Department – Strategic Planning and Programming, Brussels
• Analytical monitoring of the political initiative to create “Legal Framework for Research Infrastructure in Europe“
• Providing research for the project “Measuring Performance in Science“
Achieved:
• Developed stakeholders’ network for Research Infrastructures (RIs) in Europe for better and efficient decision-making, management and implementation

2006-2007- Traineeship in the Council of Europe, DG – Political Affairs, department – NGOs and Civil Society, Strasbourg
• Political analysis for the multidisciplinary projects: "Russian NGO legislation", "Forum for the Future of Democracy" and "Confidence Building Measures"
• In-depth research for “Monitoring Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina” (2006)
Achieved:
• Worked out a comparative framework of NGOs legislation in different countries
• Learnt practicalities of political research, analysis and forecasting
Education:
2014- PhD Degree (University of Vienna) - European Union in the international negotiations on climate change
2008 - MA Degree (College of Europe) - European Governance and EU Environmental Policy
2007 - BA Degree (Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg) - Politics, Law and Economics of the European Union
1997 - MA Degree (State University, Czernowitz) - English and German Languages
Available for:
  • Consulting assignments
  • Job opportunities
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    Years of Experience:
    10-15 years
    Highest Qualification:
    Doctorate
    Languages:
    English, French, Russian, Ukrainian, German
    Nationality:
    Austria
    LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalya-gudz-19a980159/
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