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Blandine Cupidon
Assistant Project Officer , United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
Ambilly, France
Young professionnal with 1 year experience in environment, climate change, disasters and conflicts within the UN. Trilingual (Fr, En, Ge), seeks challenging job opportunities in Europe and developing countries
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Area of Expertise:
  • Environment, Climate, Energy, Water, Sanitation
  • Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
  • Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global
Professional Experience:
Until June 2014, I am currently Assistant Project Officer in the Sustainable Transport Section at UNECE. My responsibilities included the preparation and follow-up of experts groups meetings on inland water navigation by:
- servicing the 24th CEVNI Expert Group: taking notes, workingw ith the UNECE Economic Affairs Officer to draft the report
- editing the English and French version of the 4th revised edition of the CEVNI, inserting the corresponding amendments and checking the formatting
- drafting the English and French version of the two new resolutions derived from a resolution, checking the formatting
- gathering data on the requirements for the issuance of boatmasters' licences in inland navigation

Before I did an internship at the Regional Office for Europe of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ROE). I assisted the Programme Coordinator of the Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) in the programme development. My responsibilities included:
- drafting and editing various project documents
- carrying out communication tasks: giving inputs and finalizing tha main ENVSEC publication ; updating and maintaining the ENVSEC website ; producing news items for the Newsletter and the website
- taking responsibility for practical arrangements, providing administrative and logistic support to prepare high-level meeting ; taking notes and delivering minutes
- assisting in some finance-related tasks such as helping to prepare the Trust Fund Allocation tables for the ENVSEC projects
- conducting research on national environmental legislation to feed an online knowledge platform

In 2013, I interned in the Environment Division of UNECE and I support the Transport, Health and Environment Pan european Programme (THE PEP). My main tasks were the following:
- conducting research on green economy and greening processes in Central Asia to prepare meetings
- contributing to the preparation and organization of a capacity-building workshop focused on green and health-friendly mobility
- communicating with the french government in order to prepare the high-level meeting,
- editing of background documents (official letters), translation of non-official documents (french-english)
- updating and maintaining the ClearingHouse, a web-based policy information platform
Education:
During my interdisciplinary Masters programme in European Studies that tackled today’s main european and global issues, I specialized in economics and political sciences. I gained a deeper insight and understanding of today's main european and global issues by following courses such as:
- economic integration worldwide ; paper on "How can trade benefit the developing countries in globalization?"
- economic integration of the EU
- global governance ; paper on "Global environmental issues, toward a better environmental governance ?"
- the economic relations betwenn the EU and developing countries
- history of the political integration of the EU
- financial and monetary integration of the EU ; paper on "Is the greek crisis at the origin of the sovereign debt crisis ?"
- european geopolitics ; brief paper on "Europe and the Arab revolutions"
- foreign policy of the EU and crisis management ; paper on "Europe and Libya, 2011-2013"
- migrations and intercultural relations in Europe

I also hold a double french-german Bachelor degree. At the University of Regensburg, Germany, I was deeply engaged in political sciences studies.
In particular, I led a research paper on the economic policy of the French government between 1981 and 1988 which analyzed the evolution and results of the government’s economic measures.

I wrote my bachelor thesis on the suggested reforms of the UN Security Council and the chances for Germany to get a permanent seat in the Security Council. I got a 1,3 mark (best german grade : 1,0)
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    Years of Experience:
    0-2 years
    Highest Qualification:
    Masters
    Languages:
    English, French, Spanish, German
    Nationality:
    France
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