Roc¡o Flores Fuertes is a Spanish young lawyer with almost 4 years experience. She is particularly interested in deepening about the challenges that the implementation of human rights faces in developing countries from a legal perspective.
She has a law degree in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and she also spent a year of her undergraduate education at Universit‚ Robert Schuman in Strasbourg. After graduating, she did a Master’s degree in International Affairs, consisting of a study of the international landscape from an economic, legal, and political perspective. Later, she worked for almost three years in a competitive law firm in Madrid. While working in this firm, she simultaneously obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Peaceful Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping at the Instituto Universitario General Guti‚rrez Mellado in Madrid. The programme was focused on international humanitarian law and the study of the legal tools to promote the conciliation in a context of conflicts. After that, she also did a Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Law at King’s College London. Finally, during the last months she worked as a lawyer for a company in Spain that manages professional musicians.
In addition to her formation as a professional, as an undergraduate at the University, she founded a group dedicated to increasing awareness of womenïs issues, particularly in the workforce, and generating debate about modifying the system to promote equality. Also, for the past year she has been a volunteer at an NGO that is dedicated to integrating the indigent into society.