Lorraine de Bouchony

Partner - General Director
Phone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Lorraine is a co-founder of Welcomeurope where she developed the consulting side of the business. She heads strategy guidance missions for companies and public organisations and has developed a unique expertise in assisting professionals in positioning themselves within the institutional mechanisms. She has a diploma from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris and is an expert in European Geopolitics. She had an experience in the Secretariat General of The European Commission that made her understand the need to facilitate the dialogue between the institutions and professionals on the ground. She’s member of TEAM EUROPE, network of speakers initiated by the European Commission

Mireille Van der Graaf

Partner - Consultancy Director
Telephone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Mireille is a co-founder of Welcomeurope and has been actively involved in the evaluation of European policies and programmes since 1993. She is the editorial manager of the Eurofunding tools and has a unique knowledge of all the programmes of the European Commission. She has a Master's Degree in European Studies from the University of Amsterdam as well as another Master's Degree from the Institut Europeen des Hautes Etudes Internationales.

Valérie Buisine

Consultant - EU funding
Phone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Valerie joined the Welcomeurope team in 2001 : she conceives and leads training sessions on European funding schemes. She also creates numerous tailor-made modules for organisations in public, private and non-for-profit sectors. She is presently active in the Consulting Department and assists public and private organisations in their building of European projects. Valerie has a Master's Degree in European Culture and Economics and is specialised in Community action programmes and Structural funds.

Camille Constans

Consultant - EU funding
Phone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Head of Welcomeurope Training Department from 2006 to April 2008, Camille Constans is today Project officer at the Consultancy Department. She assists public and private organisations in indentifying the relevant funding, building applications and getting ready for the management of the European projects.
She continues to deliver training sessions on European funding schemes (structural funds, community and external action programmes, pre-accession) from the application to the management, in and outside the European Union.
She conveys her own practical experience of the ground. As Project Manager of different transnational and crossborder European projects to the end of 2005, she has formalised applications, set up European partnerships and managed projects for NGOs and central and local governments from start to finish.

Malgorzata Hiszka

Consultant - EU funding
Phone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Malgorzata is a Head of the Training Department, specialist of European policies, strategies and partnerships. Fascinated by European issues, she manifests of a great personal interest for the European construction by her involvement to European environment. She has a Master2 in European economics and a diploma in European law. She always has been active in European market developments and benchmarks since very young age. She had an experience at the European Parliament and at the Council of Europe. Since 2004, she acquired a unique expertise in EU funds, thanks to her position within the European affairs department of the French Ministry.

Gwenaëlle Radosevic

Consultant - EU funding
Telephone : 33 1 42 54 60 64

Gwenaëlle joined Welcomeurope in 2006 as head of the monitoring and analysis department. Her activity is centred on the implementation of the new structural funds and state aids. She draws up studies and training sessions, for project leaders as well as managing and monitoring authorities such as the Diact or Cnasea. She has a Master degree in European law (Rennes 1) and a MBA (IAE Paris Panthéon Sorbonne).
Innovation, sustainable development and employment: she is involved, beside the consulting activities, in the follow up of funding opportunities. Gwenaëlle has drawn up methodologies and written guides on the structural funds in France for local authorities, civil society actors and companies, and is writing monthly political and juridical articles for European actors (CDC – Caisse des Dépôts, CNCE – Caisse nationale des Caisse d'Epargne, EDF, Territorial-Courrier des maires).