Álvaro Ballesteros Panizo

Álvaro Ballesteros Panizo is an State Attorney (Abogado del Estado) currently working as Agent of the Kingdom of Spain in the State Attorney’s Office before the Court of Justice of the European Union, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation. Previously, he has held different responsibilities in the General State Administration, both contentious and consultative. From 2016 to 2020, he has been a legal secretary (référendaire) at the CJEU, in the office of the former Vice-President of the institution.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• State Attorney before the CJEU-Agent of the Kingdom of Spain, 2021 – Present

• State Attorney’s Office; at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation and at the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, 2020 – 2021

• Counsel to the Court of Justice of the European Union, office of Judge Rosario Silva de Lapuerta, Vice-President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, 2016 – 2020

• Abogacía del Estado in Barcelona – Abogado del Estado (State Lawyer), 2015 – 2016

• Regional Legal Service AEAT in Galicia – Abogado del Estado Jefe (Head State Lawyer), 2014 – 2015

• State Attorney’s Office in A Coruña – State Lawyer, 2014