Lorena Boix Alonso

Deputy Director-General for Health, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), European Commission

Lorena Boix Alonso is Deputy Director-General for Health in the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE), at the European Commission. Formerly, she worked in the Directorate-General for Communications Networks Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), where she held the positions of Director for Digital Society, Trust and Cybersecurity - covering e-health, e-identification, privacy and cybersecurity-, as well as Acting Director for Policy Strategy and Outreach, Head of Unit for Policy Implementation and Planning and Head of Unit for Converging Media and Content. Previously, she was Deputy Head of Cabinet of Vice President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda and also during Ms Kroes' mandate as Commissioner for Competition. She joined the European Commission, in the Directorate-General for Competition, in 2003. Prior to the Commission, she worked at the European Court of Justice and in private practice in Brussels. She holds a Master of Laws from the Harvard Law School and a Licence Spéciale en Droit Européen from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. She graduated in Law from the University of Valencia, Spain.