Juan Jorge Piernas López is a Doctor of Laws from the European University Institute in Florence (2013). He formerly graduated from Harvard University (LL.M., Harvard Law School 2007), the College of Europe (Master in Advanced European Studies, Natolin, Poland 2005) and the University of Murcia (Law degree, Spain, 2003). Juan Jorge is currently assistant professor of European Union and International law at the University of Murcia and consultant to the World Bank in State aid matters. He previously worked for the international law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, focussing on European Union and Spanish Competition, Trade, and State Aid Law matters (Brussels, 2007-2009), and the European Commission (Stagiare at the Legal Service in 2005 and temporal agent at DG Competition in 2006). Juan Jorge Piernas López has published extensively on International and European Union Law.