Justyna Lasik joined the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore in August 2020 as Head of the Trade and Economic Section. Prior to this assignment, she worked for over 10 years at the Directorate General for Trade (DG TRADE), European Commission on EU free trade agreements negotiations, in particular with South Korea and Japan. Between 2016 and 2019 she was a member of the European Commission’s Task Force in charge of negotiations of UK’s departure from the EU. She also served as policy assistant to the Director General of DG TRADE covering wide range of issues, including WTO related matters, trade defence instruments and trade relations with the United States. Ms. Lasik received a BA in European Studies from the Warsaw University, a MA in International Economic Relations from Warsaw School of Economics and a MA in European Studies/Trade Policy from Hamburg University (Europa Kolleg Hamburg).