Vladislav Veližanin works primarily on EPF’s advocacy and research. Before joining the Secretariat, Vladislav was as a communication advisor at the Estonian Chamber of Disabled People and a civic engagement project manager in the Youth Association “Open Republic”. Vladislav holds a master’s degree in political science from Tallinn University, he is an alumnus of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellowship at Wake Forest University in North Carolina and a former Erasmus student at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Vladislav is fluent in Estonian, English, Russian and Spanish.