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Stef is a lecturer at the department and co-director of research at the the Media (CFOM) at the University of 91Ö±²¥. She read Public Administration and International Affairs for her BA and focused on both public and political communication in her postgraduate degrees. Her PhD was on the European Commission’s public communication of European citizenship since 1951. She is part of the international team of historians writing the third volume of the official European Commission history entitled The European Commission, 1986-2000: History and Memories’. Her chapter focuses on the European Commission’s public communication strategy and programmes, the monitoring and measuring of EU public opinion and the Spokesman’s Service. She is also part of the Oral History Team at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence and was visiting research fellow at the Alcide de Gasperi Centre on the History of European integration at the EUI in 2017. Stef has also acted as a consultant for the European Commission on communicating a European civil narrative to European citizens. She has worked for both the press office and the bureau for public campaigns at the French Ministry of Economy. At the former she was responsible for press relations and at the latter she was involved in the development and public communication of various national campaigns.