Véronique Ferjou, associate manager, APCO Worldwide, has eight years of professional experience and benefits from a dual French and European public affairs expertise. Following nearly three years with APCO's Brussels office, she joined the APCO office in Paris in September 2004. As associate manager, she provides both public affairs and strategic communication support and advice to clients focusing in various policy areas ranging from health care (perception of disease and outreach program for companies to decision-makers), to transport and environment (aviation, freight, noise emission, air pollution, global warming and recycling).

Ms. Ferjou leads APCO Worldwide's health care work based out of our Paris office. From 2002 to 2004, she was responsible for the outreach program of the Vaccine Fund to the European decision-makers and successfully contributed to the leveraging of EU funds for this Public-Private-Partnership while there was no legal basis in the European Treaties.

Prior to joining APCO, Ms. Ferjou worked for Praaning Meines Consultancy Group, a European public affairs and public relations agency headquartered in Brussels and The Hague. As a junior consultant, she was actively involved in the development of strategic lobbying campaigns in the fields of environment, telecommunications and competition policies. She was also the project coordinator of a week of events in Brussels for the government of a gulf country.

Previously she has worked in the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission and for the French Employers Association (MEDEF) European Union Office in Brussels.

Ms. Ferjou holds a degree in politics and international relations from the Institute for Political Studies in Bordeaux (Sciences Po). She also has a master’s in European affairs of the Robert Schuman University (Strasbourg) and European cultures and societies from the University of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Ms. Ferjou is fluent in French, English and speaks Spanish.