Samuel Doveri-Vesterbye
Director
European Neighbourhood Council (ENC)
Samuel Doveri-Vesterbye is Managing Director at the European Neighbourhood Council (ENC) and specialises in Türkiye, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans and the Middle East. He oversees ENC research programmes and Academic Council Members across all 16 neighbourhood countries, accession countries and Central Asia, including regional strategy. As the Director of ENC, he provides direct research advice and policy support to Member States and the European Commission, including the European External Action Service. His research is focused on EU-Türkiye and Eurasian relations in trade, accession, energy, migration, ESG-standards, sustainable business, digital-space, data collection, and neighbourhood policy. He is the author of numerous research studies, including Palgrave Macmillan’s Managing Security Threats along the EU’s Eastern Flanks.
The European Union, its global gateway initiative and sustainable mining
Since 2022, the European Union, its global gateway initiative and new policy for Central Asia rolls out a new way of doing investments in ingratrscture, green energy, supply chains and critical raw materials which both promotes global trade, industrialisation, growth, security, technology transfer and the environment. At a times in which everyday people feel the effects of pollution, and at a time of protectionism and conflict between the US and China, the EU is offering a third way which continues to engage with global trade and which continues to promote investment and environmental standards, especially in critical raw materials and mining.