Marie Audren is the Director General of HOTREC since August 2020.
She has extensive experience in EU public affairs. Previously in her career, she was Deputy Director General of spiritsEUROPE, the European association representing spirits producers. She also worked as an adviser in the EU office of the French business federation, MEDEF.
Marie is a French national and lives in Brussels with her family. She holds a Master’s degree in “European studies” from the Louvain-la-Neuve University (UCL) and a Master’s degree in “Public Administration” from Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Rennes).
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