Dr. Alessandro Spina

Biography

Alessandro Spina is a member of the Legal Service of the European Commission, specializing in EU law and health pharmaceutical law. He holds a law degree cum laude from the University of Siena, an LLM (M.Jur.) from the University of Oxford, and a PhD in Law and Economics from the University of Siena. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has held various positions in academia, private practice, and public institutions. Notably, he served as a legal adviser and data protection officer at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the EU's pharmaceutical regulator, from 2009 to 2018. Alessandro is a dual-qualified lawyer in Italy and England and frequently appears before the Court of Justice of the EU, engaging in a broad range of litigation matters, particularly concerning pharmaceuticals and transparency. He has been a researcher in Private Law at the University of Siena and served as an Adjunct Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Milan Statale for the academic year 2011/2012. He has also been a visiting lecturer on Risk Regulation at the University of Fribourg in 2016. His academic interests include EU law, health pharmaceutical law, and behavioral risk regulation, and he is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Risk Regulation.

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