Dr Belén Olmos Giupponi is a Professor of Law and a Barrister (Abogada), qualified in Spain. Throughout her career, Dr Belén Olmos Giupponi has undertaken research in international law, dispute resolution and environmental law. She has extensively analysed labour, and environmental standards in the EU trade and investment policy, EU state aid, and Brexit legal implications, modelling alternative solutions for EU-UK trade and investment relations. Dr Olmos Giupponi is co-convener of the Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights at the European Society of International Law and has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals and books such as International Environmental Law Compliance in Context (Routledge 2021), Trade Agreements, Investment Protection and Dispute Settlement in Latin America (Wolters Kluwer 2019), Rethinking Free Trade and Human Rights in the Americas (Hart 2016), and a Chapter on EU Common Commercial and Investment Policy in The Law of the EU (Oxford University Press 2015)