Polina Petrova

Polina Petrova holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in “European and International Business Law” (with a strong emphasis on Intellectual Property and New Technologies) from the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria) (together with Stanford Law School), where she has graduated as an Academic Excellence Scholarship Recipient. She is also a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (Honours) graduate in “International and European Law” from the University of Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands), and she has as well completed a specialisation in “International and Comparative Business Law” at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.

Polina Petrova has gained a few years of professional experience at two intellectual property law firms, including in Singapore. She worked as a Legal Analyst at the European Commission, in Brussels, Belgium, where she also provided support during inter-institutional negotiations between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council, as well as during stakeholder consultations, regarding legislative revisions. She represented Bulgaria as a Youth Delegate at the Model Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), held in conjunction with the 14^th ASEM Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM14) on “Asia & Europe – Together for Effective Multilateralism” in Madrid, Spain.

Among her major interests are intellectual property and technology law, as well as diplomacy in foreign policy.