She holds a PhD in Law, a Master's Degree in European Union Law and a Diploma in Higher National Defense Studies. Director of the UNESCO/UC3M Chair in Public Freedoms and Civic Values. Member of the NATO Civil Society Advisory Panel, which advises the Special Representative of the NATO Secretary General. She is Project Coordinator at the Women for Africa Foundation. She has been Director of the Peacebuilding Program at CITpax. She has been Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and Global Emile Noel Fellow at New York University, as well as visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Public International Law and Comparative Public Law, in Heidelberg and at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, in London. Her main lines of research are: Gender and International Law, Women, International Peace and Security, Gender and Development; Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes and International Mediation. Some of her recent publications are: The Pulse of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda on its 20th Anniversary and Towards sexual disarmament in the Sahel: the case of Mali.