At Meta, Vitnija leads on relationships with top policy-makers, NGOs and businesses across Central and Eastern Europe to advance friendlier tech and innovation policies.

In her former professional roles, she worked at the NATO Public Diplomacy Division in Brussels, as well as the global media lead at Transparency International Secretariat in Berlin. She also spent many years covering Eastern Europe as an international TV news journalist for the world’s largest news agency Associated Press, based out of Moscow, London and Tallinn. There, she covered such crucial stories such as the Ukraine war, political unrest in Russia, refugee crisis, among others. Vitnija holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in International Relations. She also serves on the Amcham Latvia Management Board.