Eva van de Rakt, EU citizen, raised in a Dutch-German family, lives in Berlin and Prague.
She has worked for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung since 2001. At present, she is Head of the European Union and North America Division at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. From 2019 until April 2023, she was Director of the EU office in Brussels. As Director of the Prague office, she was responsible for the Foundation’s activities in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary from 2004 until 2018. Her expertise and focus areas include the future of the European Union and European politics, the prospects of the socio-ecological transformation as well as the protection and promotion of democracy, human rights and gender equality. She was a member of the Board of Directors at the Green European Foundation from 2014 until 2016, and was a member of its General Assembly until 2023. She has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Czech-German Fund for the Future (Deutsch-Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds) since 2018.

After her studies at the University of Music and Theatre in Rotterdam, Eva van de Rakt taught contemporary dance at the Duncan Centre Conservatory in Prague and was involved in several international dance and film projects from 1997 until 2001. In 2019, her bilingual volume of poems „Unter Oberflächen / Pod povrchy (Under surfaces)” was published by the Czech publishing house Verzone.