Ambassador Romana Vlahutin is a visiting distinguished fellow for geostrategy at GMF. She served from 2019 to 2022 as ambassador at large/EU special envoy for connectivity in the European External Action Service, where she spearheaded EU connectivity strategy and worked as a chief negotiator for the EU-Japan and EU-India connectivity partnerships. Vlahutin was the EU ambassador to Albania from 2014 to 2018 and led EU support for the country’s public policy reform process, including that for the judiciary. She was the Croatian president’s foreign policy advisor from 2010 to 2014.