Elena Cima

Since March 2013, Ms. Elena CIMA has been Research Associate at gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. She is PhD Candidate in International Law at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies – IHEID, Geneva (Switzerland), she obtained her LL.M. (2014) at Yale Law School (USA) and beneficiary of a prestigious grant award of the Bank of Italy. She was also Marie Curie Fellow at Tsinghua University, School of Law (China), and member of the research team for the project “EPSEI”, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by Prof. Paolo D. Farah. She had been living and working in Beijing as a researcher for several other projects for two years. Previously, she worked for six months at the Fair Trade Advocacy Office (FTAO) in Brussels (Belgium) and spent one academic year (2009-2010) as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Department of East Asian Legal Studies (USA). She has graduated with honors in 2010 obtaining her combined J.D./LL.M. from the University of Milan, School of Law (Italy). She published in prestigious peer-review academic journals. Her main research areas of interest are International Trade law, Intellectual Property law, Environmental and Energy law, and East Asian law.

Italian native speaker, she is fluent in English and French.