Silvia Kofler, spokesperson and head of press and public diplomacy at the Delegation of the European Union to the United States, will be available for a question and answer session at UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

The event, which is exclusive to the journalism school’s students and faculty, will be held at 2 p.m. on Feb. 7 in the Freedom Forum Conference Center.

Kofler, who is fluent in five EU languages and in Russian, oversees media relations, public outreach, academic and cultural programs, long-term relationship building initiatives, and information products and services in her position.

More about the EU-U.S. partnership:

• the relationship is the longest standing economic relationship, according to an EU release
• more than $4 trillion in money, goods and services is exchanged
• the two entities make up more than one-half of the world’s gross domestic product
• about 12 percent of the world’s population lives in the EU and the U.S.

To RSVP to Kofler’s Q&A, email Michael Penny at mpenny@email.unc.edu. The event is open to all JOMC faculty and students.