Lucas Maurer currently works in the Asia-Pacific Department of the European External Action Service (EEAS). As co-desk for India and desk for Nepal and Bhutan he is responsible for the relationship of the European Union with India Nepal and Bhutan. Before joining the EEAS he worked in the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission on Policy Planning and Programming as well as on the implementation of the EU Energy Union. He has past work experiences in the Permanent Mission of Austria to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna at the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum in Brussels and at the EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies Department of the College of Europe. He has an academic background in Political Science and Slavonic Studies as well as a postgraduate degree in European Studies.