Krystyna Schreiber is the Delegate of the Government of Catalonia to Central Europe, heading the delegation office in Vienna and its sub-offices in Warsaw and Ljubljana. The delegation’s legal mandate include the institutional representation in the delegation countries Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia. The development of relations in strategic sectors such as business, tech, research, culture, digitization or regional development. The daily tasks of the delegation cover a wide scope of activities; e.g.
identifying opportunities, developing strategic networks in both directions; supporting cooperation for Catalan and international stakeholders, organising missions, best practices exchange or fostering academic exchange and the collaboration with multilateral agents as well as promoting key policies of the regional government.
Krystyna Schreiber holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from Pompeu Fabra University, and has studied Economics with a specialisation in Sociology at the University of Cologne, Germany. She speaks German, English, Catalan as well as Spanish and has funded knowledge of French and Russian. She has extensive business experience with the international market in the fields of marketing and international projects management.
She worked as a journalist specialised in politics for German and English-speaking media. She also published analysis books on Catalan news in Germany, France and Catalonia; which were presented, among others, at the Humboldt Universität Berlin, the Goethe-
Universität in Frankfurt or the Universität Wien. She was awarded the Journalism Prize of the Institute of the Regions of Europe. She has developed international and institutional communication strategies for associations, for example as Head of Communication for the Netzwerk für Deutschsprachige Nachwuchskräfte – the largest association of young German-speaking entrepreneurs in Catalonia. Schreiber was also a member of the Barcelona City Promotion Advisory Board (2018 and 2019).
She is originally from Dresden, Saxony – a German border region with close historical, cultural and economic ties with the countries of the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia in Central Europe.
