Erika Sander

Erika Sander is a Senior Legal Consultant at Spark Legal and Policy Consulting, where she has been working since 2020. Erika is the lead of the Internal Market, Financial Affairs and Competition area.

Erika is experienced in managing projects and conducting legal and policy research tasks, having worked on amongst others, a study on the ‘Assessment of Completeness and Conformity of Member States' Measures to Transpose Directive (EU) 2019/1 (ECN+ Directive)’ (DG COMP), several studies on the ‘Mapping and Assessment of Developments for sectoral professions under Directive 2005/36/EC’ for DG GROW, a ‘Legal Study to Verify the Transposition of the Metrology Directives, Including on Measuring and Non-Automatic Weighing Instruments, in all Member States of the European Union’ (DG GROW), and a Study on Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) in the European Union: Impacts on Consumers’ (DG FISMA).

Erika obtained a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Genova in Italy and graduated with a thesis in European Private International Law.

Before joining Spark, Erika worked in Brussels as the Editorial Coordinator for an EU legal information service focussed on Competition Law. In addition, she worked as trainee lawyer in an Italian law firm in Genova specialised in Restructuring and Insolvency Law.

Erika’s native languages are Italian and English, and she also speaks Spanish and French.