Zane Šime is a policy analyst focusing on the EU macro-regional governance, the EU science diplomacy towards the Southern neighborhood and the EU-India educational diplomacy in a broader context of the Asia-Europe Meeting. Zane has obtained professional experience as an international civil servant at the Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States and a national civil servant in Latvia. She is a graduate of KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Latvia (Latvia).