Veronica Beneitez, lawyer by training, has spent his career working on the field of research and research policy. While starting by looking at the social sciences , she immediately got interested to learn more about the translation of research results into economy and society. That lead her to get more attracted by Intellectual property and its management. She completed a Post graduate in CEIPI ( Strasbourg) on Intellectual Property Management and since 2019, she has been working at the European Commission, under the directorate General of Research and Innovation on valorisation policies and IPRs.