About Maica Trabanco

Maica is an EU qualified lawyer, she has worked in international law firms as Legal Counsel, as an in-house lawyer for a pharmaceutical corporation, and, more recently, as Associate Counsel for a Geneva-based not-for-profit organization that aims to improve access to pharmaceutical products on the WHO Essential Medicines List (EML) for distribution in low- and middle-income countries.

She has extensive experience in negotiating a variety of contracts, such as IP licences and technology transfer agreements with pharmaceutical companies and other research-based institutions, to facilitate access to health products; she has also been expert in the development and implementation of frameworks around organizational conflicts of interest, ethics and compliance. Maica is a member of the Madrid Bar Association, with an LL.M. in International Trade Law from the University of Amsterdam, and a postgraduate student of Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.