Mrs. Femke Lee-Brouwer is the Chief Technical Advisor for UNDP at the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova since July 2017. She works to support the national legislature with improving their law-making, oversight and representative functions with a specific focus on European integration and the SDGs.

Prior to this Mrs. Lee-Brouwer worked as Senior Parliamentary Officer at the Natural Resource Governance Institute supporting parliaments and political parties on extractive policy development and law-making. She was one of the co-authors of an innovative guide for political parties, which examines their role in resource governance and assists parties to develop strong policy positions across a wide range of political and technical topics.

With over 15 years of experience, Mrs. Lee-Brouwer has strong expertise in political analysis, technical assistance delivery, learning and program design, strategic planning and program management in the governance sector. She has worked in more than 20 countries across Europe, Africa and Asia with a wide variety of stakeholders including politicians, government officials, civil society and citizens. Mrs. Lee – Brouwer had the pleasure of teaming up with the following organizations: Natural Resource Governance Institute, International IDEA, AWEPA, Friedrich Ebert Association, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), European Parliament and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She holds a Master degree in International and European law from the University of Groningen and a Postgraduate Diploma on Governance, Democratization and Public Policy from the International Institute for Social Studies in the Netherlands. Mrs. Lee - Brouwer is a Dutch native speaker and also fluent in English and French.