< BACK TO ABOUT Besiana Balla Associate Director Besiana Balla is associate director at the Lisbon Council. Previously, she served as research lead and programme manager at Public, a United Kingdom-based digital government consulting firm. She also worked as a lecturer at Science Po on the history of tech revolutions and a venture-capital investor in Berlin. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Master in Economic Policies from Université Paris Cité.