Constanza Sánchez Avilés is the Law, Policy & Human Rights Director at the International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS). She is a political scientist and holds a PhD in International Law and International Relations. Her main areas of work and research are national and international drug control policies and the intersection between drug control, human rights, and social justice. From 2007 to 2013 she was a lecturer and researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). She has been visiting scholar at the University of Miami (2010), the University of San Diego (2012) and a research assistant at the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO), UK (2013). She has also conducted fieldwork in Europe, Peru, the United States, Colombia, Mexico, the US-Mexico border, and southern Spanish border. Constanza regularly participates in the sessions of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the UN Human Rights bodies, as well as other international meetings as a CSO representative. She collaborates with several drug policy institutions. She is Research Associate at the GDPO in Swansea University and the Cátedra “Drogas siglo XXI” at Universidad Complutense. She assiduously publishes and lectures on her areas of expertise.