Ognjenka heads the food and nutrition policy team, advises some of the world’s largest companies and international organisations, and helps shape and drive European and global public affairs campaigns and engagement programs that deliver results in the global nutrition space and the Brussels legislative arena.
Ognjenka worked on some of the most complex PA campaigns focused on agriculture and tech files in Brussels. Her expertise includes regulatory issues and challenges facing multinational corporations, as well as organisations looking to position themselves across the European policy landscape. Ognjenka has been engaging with the industry context, stakeholders and trends, as well as with regulation shaping different markets and product segments in F&B. By combining her background in European law and more than eight years of experience in public affairs, political communications, and crisis and issues management, Ognjenka helps effectively identify and anticipate business problems and opportunities, and tackle them through applying deep strategic and tactical knowledge.
She’s a former legal professional and has a track record of research at the University of Edinburgh as well as editorial experience working with leading academic press (Oxford, Cambridge, Routledge). Ognjenka holds an LL.M in European Law from the Edinburgh Law School where she studied as a Chevening Scholar of the UK government.