Amandine Sabourin
Biography
Dr Amandine Sabourin is a senior policy analyst in ECDPM’s European foreign and development policy and Inclusive governance and accountability teams.
Amandine leads ECDPM's research on EU support to Ukraine, including the governance architecture of the Ukraine Facility and the EU's broader role in reconstruction, accession, and security. She also leads research on some aspects of the EU external action more broadly, including with a focus on inclusive governance, civil society engagement, and accountability.
She holds a PhD in Political Science and brings almost 20 years of experience in policy analysis, advisory work, and applied research for EU institutions, member states, and international organisations. Her thematic expertise spans democracy, human rights, civil society engagement, and gender equality, with a strong analytical focus on how EU partnerships and external financial instruments translate into practice in partner countries.
Amandine has led and contributed to assignments on gender mainstreaming in EU external action under NDICI-Global Europe, civil society and shrinking civic space, and the involvement of local and regional authorities in development cooperation, including Global Gateway strategy and decentralised cooperation. Her research has examined EU programming in fragile and politically complex contexts, including fieldwork-informed case studies across Sub-Saharan Africa and the EU neighbourhood, with attention to how EU strategies reach local actors, civil society organisations, and partner governments.
Before joining ECDPM, Amandine worked as a policy and advocacy officer at the Council of European Municipalities and Regions for the PLATFORMA coalition. She also worked in two French embassies, coordinating exchanges of public sector expertise between France and Moldova, and France and Poland. She is a scientific collaborator at the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Languages
- French
- English
- German
- Spanish
- Romanian
