Mag. Dr. Elke Schraik, MA
Curriculum Vitae
Short Biography
Before joining the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF) in September 2020, Elke Schraik worked in the private sector with GDF Suez (now Engie), a Belgian-French multinational energy company, and had a teaching career in a secondary school (upper cycle), where she focused mainly on interdisciplinary subjects connecting politics, economics, social issues and business. During her studies of French and English at the University of Vienna, she also worked one year as a teaching assistant in a lycée in France.
Apart from a doctoral degree in Political Science, she holds a Magister degree in French and English, a Master’s degree in Public Relations and Public Affairs and attended courses on global history at the University of Vienna, as well as on political economy and EU studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, at Sciences Po in Paris as well as at the Cambridge Summer Institute.
Her research at the EIF focuses on the European Union's role as a global digital actor, concentrating in particular on the EU's external digital policies towards Africa and the US. Since her successful thesis defense ("The EU as a Global Digital Actor: Catching up? Staying on Top? Lending a Hand?"), Elke has been teaching a range of courses at the Department of Political Science, the Diplomatic Academy and other higher education institutions in Austria."
