Natalia Macyra
Email: natalia.macyra@ecipe.org
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Natalia Macyra is the Head of Communications at ECIPE, where she leads the organisation’s external communications strategy and drives high-impact policy project outreach to enhance visibility, stakeholder engagement, and consistent messaging across all public channels. She develops cohesive internal communications frameworks that improve transparency, strengthen organisational culture, and support staff engagement during periods of growth and change, while ensuring communications strategy aligns with overall organisational objectives.
With a strong background in communications and digital transformation, Natalia plays a significant role in shaping organisational strategy, identifying opportunities where AI and emerging technologies can enhance operations, knowledge sharing, and decision-making. She guides the integration of AI-supported approaches into both communications and operational workflows, ensuring innovation supports long-term organisational goals.
A certified project manager (PRINCE2 Practitioner), Natalia supports senior leadership in operations, budgets, and HR processes, provides structured guidance to research teams, and assist with the successful implementation of complex projects. She delivers insights that inform strategic planning and improve overall organisational effectiveness.
Natalia holds a Master’s degree in International Relations with a specialisation in International Trade Policy from the University of Warsaw, and has also studied at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and the University of Copenhagen. She speaks Polish, English and French, and has a good understanding of Dutch.
ECIPE Occasional Papers
After Cross-Strait Rapprochement: A Conceptual Analysis of Potential Gains to Europe from China-Taiwan Economic Cooperation
Is it time for the European Union to revisit its trade policy strategy towards Taiwan? This paper takes a closer look at the potential effects on EU trade and investment that are likely to emerge as a consequence of deepened commercial relations between Taiwan and Mainland China. Although Taiwan is not one of Europe’s top trading partners, it is an important trading partner and it plays a critical role in the Asia Pacific region, especially through its dense...
ECIPE Bulletins
Immigration: An Opportunity for the European Union
The debate in Europe on migration, and its impact on employment, is lively but often painfully misguided. Increasing unemployment and the euro crisis are fertile grounds for those who support closing the EU borders for migrants. Although many Europeans know that immigrants are needed in the economy, proposals to enhance worker mobility in the EU, or more open migration policies, stir up opinions. As witnessed in some recent elections, nationalist parties and...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
The International Services Agreement (ISA) – From the European Vantage Point
Services liberalisation has perhaps suffered from the deadlock of the WTO more than any other area of trade. As the discussions of a potential plurilateral agreement amongst a select group of countries continue, more questions are raised than answered. In a new policy brief by Hosuk Lee-Makiyama, he argues that approximately half of the trade costs are amongst those who are likely to join the plurilateral, while those in the other half - the emerging economies -...
Media Mention
“Fed Up”
Report on India & WTO by Lee-Makiyama, Macyra, van der Marel quoted in the Rushford Report
Article
Eleições indicam UE mais defensiva em questões comerciais
Natalia Macyra talks about the outcome of the European Parliament election in Valor Econômico (in Portuguese)
Article
INDIA & THE WTO
ECIPE experts write on India in the WTO and the Bali Package in CFO India
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Docking investment in international trade policy
Lisa Brandt and Natalia Macyra on trade and investment in NewEurope
Article
Do EU sanctions against the likes of Syria achieve anything?
Op-ed by Natalia Macyra and Hosuk Lee-Makiyama in Public Service Europe on EU sanctions)
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Speech or Presentation
The Textile and Clothing Industry in a Changing Economic Environment
Keynote presentation at Euratex General Assembly, 29th May in Brussels