Velina Pendolovska

Velina is part of the Health Security Unit of the Directorate-General Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE) of the European Commission. After studying international relations and politics at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, Velina obtained her Master's in international relations, law, and economics at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. Velina joined the European Commission in 2009, working in other departments before moving to the Commission’s public health directorate in 2015, where she’s been working on diverse files related to serious cross-border health threats, communicable disease, preparedness, health security, and risk communication. Since 2019 she is chiefly working on antimicrobial resistance, covering the public health aspects of EU policies on AMR in the context of a One Health approach.