Marilena Raouna was born in Larnaca in 1983. She comes from Famagusta.
She is a graduate of the American Academy of Larnaca. She studied law at the University of Oxford (BA in Jurisprudence) with postgraduate studies (LLM) in Public International and European Law at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She holds a diploma in French language and culture from the University of Sorbonne.
From 2007 to 2010 she worked at the European Commission, in the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security, as head of the European programme to combat violence against women, young people and children ("DaphneIII").
From 2010 to 2014, he served at the Permanent Representation of Cyprus to the European Union (EU-Turkey relations, enlargement policy and issues related to the Turkish Cypriot community). During the first Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU (2012), she was the national representative of Cyprus in the Council Working Group on Enlargement and a member of the EU Council negotiating team in trilogues with the European Parliament and the European Commission on the establishment of a new pre-accession assistance mechanism. She participated in negotiations for a Cyprus settlement, as well as in a special negotiating team on EU issues.
From 2018 to 2021 she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a special advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
She is married to Seth Rosenbaum and is the mother of two children.
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