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Lorena Boix Alonso

• Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes
• Comisión Europea

Lorena Boix Alonso is the Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice President Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda. She has been a member of Cabinet of Commissioner Kroes during her mandate as Commissioner for Competition since October 2004, and became Deputy Head of Cabinet in May 2008.

After graduating in Law from the University of Valencia (Spain), she attended the Institut d'Etudes européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She also holds a Master of Law, with a focus on Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property, from the Harvard Law School.

She joined the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition in 2003. Prior to that, she has worked for Judge Rafael García Valdecasas, at the European Court of Justice, as well as Deputy Director and Legal Coordinator of the IPR-Helpdesk Project and in private practice in Brussels.