Elena Coello
Assistant to the Director, European Commission, EACEA - Education, Audio-visual and Culture Executive Agency, Belgium
Elena Coello works for the European Commission. She is the assistant to the Director of the Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA). In addition to assisting and advising the Director in strategic and managerial issues, she is in charge of developing knowledge management at EACEA, aiming at making the organisation a modern and innovative place to work. Before this position she was Head of Sector responsible for ICT in the field of education.
Elena has worked for several years in the European Commission as well as in the private sector in several European countries. She has studied in Spain and Germany, and holds a university degree of Humanities and Education Sciences from the University Valladolid, Spain, with a focus on Germanic Philology and Linguistics.