Anna van Oeveren studied Political Science and Public Administration at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Bordeaux, completing her studies there with a masters in International Relations, a research masters partly conducted at the Université Laval de Québec. After graduating in 2012, she was a research and communications trainee at the Institut Français des Relations internationals (IFRI) before working with Carnegie Europe, the European centre of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as Communications Assistant. Anna started working as Communications and Marketing Assistant with the Martens Centre in September 2015. She speaks fluent English, French, Dutch and has an intermediate knowledge of German.