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Patricia Lisa is an Analyst at Elcano Royal Institute for EU and migration matters. She has been involved in international negotiations for more than ten years, representing public offices for European Affairs and government members in Portugal. She was a team member in the Portuguese (2007) and Spanish (2010) Presidencies of the Council of the EU, head delegate for Justice and Home Affairs at several EU working parties and deputy to the advisory Committee of Article 36 (pre Lisbon) for policy and judicial cooperation in penal matters. She has been a technical advisor to government members on EU and national law and participates in various networking projects, as a Contact Point for the European Judicial Network in penal matters. She is a member of the Bellevue Programme at the Bosch Foundation and of the Global Diplomacy Lab. Her research areas are mainly: EU institutional affairs, in particular in the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ), free movement of persons, criminal law, police and judicial co-operation and migration policies.
She has a postgraduate Diplom in European Law from King’s College London and in Advanced Studies in Public Management from the Portuguese Institute for Public Administration. She is a PhD candidate at the University Institute of Studies on Migration (IUEM) of the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid.
