Silvia López Lapuente is a Program Assistant at Club de Madrid, where she supports the organisation’s programmes, with a particular focus on the Rules-Based International Order.
Previously, Silvia worked as a policy trainee for the Foreign Affairs and Human Rights Committees at the European Parliament in Brussels, where she contributed to the negotiations on the EU’s external action budget under the next Multiannual Financial Framework, among other files concerning EU’s relations with third countries, especially in the Global South. Her earlier experience includes EU project management at a Brussels-based consultancy, research on transparency and the rule of law at Transparency International Spain, coordination of development projects with OAN International in Benin, and policy research on civic space with Our Rule of Law Academy.
Silvia holds a Master of European Studies in Transnational and Global Perspectives from KU Leuven and a Dual Bachelor’s Degree in Political Sciences and Law from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She also studied European Law at Maastricht University through the Erasmus programme and completed an exchange semester at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, focusing on Latin American politics and regional integration.