Ave Schank-Lukas

Ave Schank-Lukas is working as the Acting Head of the Commission Representation in Estonia since August 2024. Before taking up the current duties, she was the economic counsellor at the Representation. In her previous functions in the European Commission, she has been working on EU’s agricultural and trade policy, in particular on agricultural markets and relations with China. She has also worked in the Secretariat-General’s European Green Deal team, and contributed to the Estonian Presidency of the EU in 2017 as an adviser to the Presidency team at the Estonian Permanent Representation to the EU. Before joining the Commission, she was an Estonian civil servant, working for the Ministry of Agriculture. Ms Schank-Lukas holds an economic degree from the University of Tartu in Estonia and a post-graduate diploma in European studies from the University of Southern Denmark.