Andrea Leruste is Deputy Head of Unit B3 at DG EMPL (Vocational education and training, Skills Portability, Cedefop). She was previously Deputy Head of Unit for European Social Fund Plus. Until 2017, she was responsible for microfinance and social enterprise support and previously for gender equality.
She started her career in 2005 as teaching assistant at the College of Europe, Bruges, before joining the German Foreign Office in Berlin. Andrea holds a degree in Cultural & Business Studies from the University of Passau, Germany, a degree in International Relations from the University March Bloch in Strasbourg and a Master of European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe.
