Policy and advocacy professional with fifteen years of experience in global health policy and access to medicines and health technologies. Elena has held different responsibilities in NGOs such as the MSF, Oxfam, ISGlobal, or Salud por Derecho, advocating for access to medicines in low—and middle-income countries. She worked with the COVID Technology Access Pool at the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 pandemic, negotiating voluntary licenses of COVID-19 health technologies that would facilitate quicker access to those in Low —and Middle-Income Countries.

She also worked with the World Health Organization during the COVID-19 pandemic, negotiating voluntary licenses of COVID-19 health technologies to facilitate quicker access to those in Low —and Middle-Income Countries. In addition, she has collaborated with the Product Development Partnership FIND (the Diagnostics Alliance) to help design FIND's position on sustainable regional diagnostics manufacturing. 

Elena works now as a consultant for the Medicines Patent Pool, where she co-developed the feasibility study on voluntary licensing for biosimilar products and currently supports the team in negotiating voluntary licensing terms with universities and public institutions, which can facilitate access to publicly funded health technologies. 

She is also an adjunct professor at IE University in Madrid and Universidad de Barcelona. 

Elena has a degree in journalism from the Universidad Pontificia of Salamanca and a Master's of International Relations from K.U. Leuven in Belgium and a Master in Public Policy from American University in Washington, D.C.