Ryan Meilak

Counsellor, Head of Outreach and Congressional Liaison, European Parliament Liaison Office, Washington D.C.

Ryan Meilak is a diplomatic Counselor. He serves as Head of Outreach and Congressional Liaison at the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington DC (EPLO), in charge of the office’s outreach to the U.S. Congress and civil society and public diplomacy initiatives. He has been working at EPLO since 2016, with a one-year gap in 2019-2020 as visiting fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government of George Mason University (VA) and as resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Ryan joined the EU institutions as an EU official in 2004, working in the European Commission in Luxembourg and later moving as an administrator with the Council of the EU in Brussels, in 2005. He joined the European Parliament in 2010 as a lecturer and later as stakeholder relations manager within the Parliament’s Directorate General for Communications in Brussels and Strasbourg. Ryan holds an MA in Diplomatic Studies.

Speaker Schedule

Saturday, February 1, 2025

at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS)
2:15pm - 3:30pm
Panel
The Union under Strain: Democratic Backsliding Alberto Alemanno | Věra Jourová | Adrian Vazquez Lazara | Yascha Mounk

Moderated by Amaryllis Verhoeven

JFK Jr. Forum
Panel
Europe's Energy Trifecta Audra Plepytė | Manfred Schuckert

Moderated by Ewa Krukowska

Starr Auditorium
Workshop
A Career in the European Parliament and European External Action Service Francesco Maria Graziani | Ryan Meilak
Wexner 434