Anna Torres is an EU affairs consultant with 18-years track record of successfully developing and executing advocacy programmes for blue-chip companies, business associations, coalitions and NGOs in several industrial sectors and policy fields.A lawyer by training, she worked for several years in Interel, one of the leading Brussels-based consultancies, and as an independent.Throughout her long career, she has acquired a thorough knowledge of the formal and informal EU decision-making processes and players. The promotion of European culture, authors’ rights/copyright and related rights are amongst her main areas of expertise, having worked for clients in the music, film and audio-visual sectors mainly in the UK, France and Spain. Other areas of her expertise are

 

Throughout her long career, she has acquired a thorough knowledge of the formal and informal EU decision-making processes and players. The promotion of European culture, authors’ rights/copyright and related rights are amongst her main areas of expertise, having worked for clients in the music, film and audio-visual sectors mainly in the UK, France and Spain. Other areas of her expertise are digital trade, consumer protection and competition.

Anna has also worked in the European Commission and has direct client experience as CEO of a trade association representing the hospitality sector vis-à-vis the EU institutions. Anna is a member of the C8 Associates team in the execution of risk management and advocacy campaigns targeting the EU institutions and other European stakeholders.