Irene-Maria Eich

Expertise I Responsibilities

• In charge of the co-operation of the national training partner platform (TPP)
• Focal Point ESDC and Chair of the WGMOT sub-group of the Executive Academic Board (EAB)
• Civil-military exercises (Viking, blue flag and others)
• HEAT & re-HEAT
• Mentoring & Advising and other missions and operations preparatory training courses
   

About

Irene-Maria Eich has been with ZIF from the very beginning and has worked as a trainer at ZIF since 2002. Before helping to set up election observation and training programmes at ZIF, she worked for the UN in East Timor, the OSCE in Kosovo, for EU election observations in the core team in Indonesia and Zimbabwe and for the European Commission in Brussels. And even during her time with us, she was repeatedly deployed: for example, for the UN to prepare for elections in Afghanistan, for the EU mission in the DR Congo or for the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) in Brussels. Irene is also a founding member and representative of ZIF in the German Training Partner Platform. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
 

Other activities

• Election Observation Core Team Member for the EU
• Representative of ZIF in the national Training Partner Platform (TPP) 
• Chair of the Working Group on CSDP Missions and Operations Related Training / WGMOT of the European Security and Defence College