About Assya Kavrakova
Assya Kavrakova is the Executive Director of the European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) an international non-profit association, based in Brussels, with a pan-European membership and nearly 30 years of experience in empowering citizens to exercise their rights and campaigning for an inclusive, transparent and democratic Europe. Ms Kavrakova has more than twenty years of experience in senior management positions in the non-governmental sector and in-depth knowledge of European Citizenship, European Rights Framework, EU civic participation formal and informal mechanisms. She has a Master’s degree in Law and another Master’s degree in European Studies.  She is also a member of the Board of EUobserver - a not-for-profit, independent online newspaper.