Navigating Your Future: Master in International Legal Studies Career Insights

This exclusive session is designed to provide invaluable insights into the diverse career avenues available to Master in International Legal Studies graduates. Whether you aspire to practice law on a global scale, engage in diplomatic relations, or contribute to international organizations, this event will guide you towards making informed decisions about your professional future.

Maria Llisterri Alvarez is a Spanish attorney focused on international trade compliance. She obtained an LLM on International Legal Studies at Georgetown University and began her career working at Linklaters (global law firm) where she first specialized in international commercial and financial transactions. Maria later found her calling while working at Repsol where she was given the task of building the Compliance department of Repsol Trading. Since then, she has developed her expertise in the implementation of Trade Compliance programs within multinational corporations. Maria currently works at Airbus where she leads the Export Control Investigations function where she supervises the company's business dealings to ensure they are compliant with US, UK, EU and other national export control restrictions, sanctions and embargoes.

Altagracia E. Cuevas-Arthur accumulates 15+ years of international experience organizing training and capacity building programs for students, government officials and private sector professionals on international trade and investment law, policy & negotiations in Spain (IE University & University of Barcelona -UB-) and Greece (European Public Law Organization -EPLO-), partly exploring intersections between trade, human rights and technology. Currently, she serves as Senior Consultant for World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Global Practice where she has advised governments on investment climate, in particular on Systemic Investment Retention Mechanisms (SIRM) and the new WTO Agreement on Investment Facilitation Agreement for Development (IFD). Altagracia is also Career Advisor at IE University in the social impact sector. Altagracia has also researched on international trade and investment, coupled with dissemination activities in Peru, Denmark and South Africa,  and lectured on fundamentals of International Economic Law at the UB and on Essentials of WTO Law at Tver, Russia. She has also served as Judge in the Spanish Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Competition at Cuatrecasas, and as Panelist in the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO law (formerly, the ELSA Moot Court Competition). Altagracia obtained two LLMs at the University of Barcelona (IELPO LLM & International Law LLM). Currently, she serves as Member of the Auditing Committee of Geneva-based TradeLab; Member of the Academic Board of the John H. Jackson Moot Court Competition on WTO Law; and Member of the Advisory Board of the Model WTO (Saint Gallen).