Dr. Marcela Szymanski

Dr. Marcela Szymanski lives in Brussels, Belgium, where she has been a public affairs consultant and an EU+NATO news correspondent (CNN en Español). She holds a BA in Communications, an MA in Economics and a PhD (abd) in International Politics from Georgia State University. She is an affiliate researcher with both the GSU and the University of the Americas in Puebla (UDLAP) writing on political change and democratization. Her public affairs clients have included not only industrial and financial concerns, but also Catholic Church foundations as they support the Church in countries at war, political prisoners, and non-Western countries suffering from substantial human rights violations by external actors. Since 2015 she is the Editor of the report “Religious Freedom in the World” for the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need (her academic publications can be found online).