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Cristina Vidal is a Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado), currently on leave, an activity which she has performed, among other destinations, before the Spanish National High Court, the Central Contentious-Administrative Courts, as head of the coordination of the AECID project for the creation of the State Legal Service in Uruguay and as Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) in the Legal Assistance Agreement entered into with SEIASA del Sur y Este (State-Owned Agricultural Infrastructure Company).

In 2010, she was appointed Director of the Litigation and Disciplinary Department of the CNMV (Spanish Securities Market Commission), where she also occupied the office of 1st Vice-Secretary of the Board. In 2013, she once again took up her work as Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) in the Sub-Directorate General of the Litigation Service of the State Legal Service, which she combined with work as Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) - Coordinator of the Legal Assistance Agreement with the CNMC (Spanish Market and Competition Commission).

In her latest professional stage she formed part of Barclays Bank, where she held the office of Head of institutional and litigation legal advice.

Cristina Vidal has formed part of the Board of Examiners for entry as Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado) and the Board of Examiners for entry as Notary Public, as Secretary and Member, respectively.

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Madrid Bar Association (Colegio de Abogados de Madrid).

Government Lawyer (Abogado del Estado), 2002 Currently on leave. Law Degree, Universidad de Valladolid.

Teaching:

Teacher on the Practicum of the ICADE Law School regarding contentious-administrative proceedings, 2009. Courses on aid and subsidies for civil servants of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development, 2009. Teacher/Coordinator of the course on Legal Assistance given to the Central Government and other Public Authorities, in Montevideo, 2009. External internship tutor of students of the School of Social and Legal Sciences of the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, 2008-2009. External internship tutor of students of the Law School of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, 2008-2009. Training courses for Civil Servants of the Central Government at the Regional Government Offices of Castilla y León, on administrative proceedings, 2003-2005. Teacher on the Master’s Degree in Admission to the Bar of the Centro de Estudios Garrigues.