Maret Miljan

Maret started to work for the Center for Policy Studies in November 2010 as a part time program assistant. She was organizing the CEU hosted 2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender that brought more than 300 scholars from all over the world to CEU. From March 2011 she became a full time program coordinator. 

Maret was also dealing with financial and administrative issues connected to the European project EDUMIGROM (a consortium of 10 European organizations) and she is the main point of contact for another European project ACCEPT PLURALISM. Aside from this Maret contributes to the everyday operation of the Center, helps to organize various public events and maintain several of the CPS online platforms. 

Before joining the CPS Maret lived in Estonia and worked for the Ministry of Justice as an adviser of drug prevention in prisons for more than 2 years. In addition to valuable experience gained in the public sector, she has been working for various non-profit organizations as a manager of different youth work and drug prevention related projects.  For a year she was doing the European Volunteer Service in Romania and working with children from vulnerable groups. Maret has defended a master’s degree in social work and social policy at Tartu University.