Francesca Gater
Strategic Communications Lead
Personal Profile
Focus
As Strategic Communications Lead, Fran leads the thinking about ZOE’s presence and positioning across all thematic areas. She is building ZOE’s channels to better reach relevant policy-makers and -shapers and to bring our vision of an economy that ensures a good life for everyone to more people. She manages ZOE’s media relations and works with our policy experts to get international coverage of our analysis and solutions. She leads ZOE’s communications research on effective framing of new economic thinking.
Background
Fran brings to ZOE 15 years of experience of EU-level communications. She was previously Communications Coordinator for the environmental justice network, Friends of the Earth Europe. There she worked on communications campaigns on the European Green Deal, just transition, EU trade deals, EU climate action, and for the United Nations climate talks. She has led civil society projects to develop hopeful narratives for sustainable, equitable, inclusive, democratic societies. Fran is based in Brussels.
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