Anželika Banevičienė was a director of the State-guaranteed Legal Aid Service of Lithuania, a member of State-guaranteed Legal Aid Co-ordination Council and State-guaranteed Legal Aid Collegium of Lithuania in 2005-2018. She has a PhD in law and takes part in scientific research in the fields of EU Law and Legal Aid. In 2004–2014, Dr. Anželika Banevičienė also gave lectures on EU Law at Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania. She has shared her experience on legal aid at various international conferences as a speaker and also has contributed her expert knowledge on legal aid to a number of international projects: MS Project Leader and an Expert in EU Twinning light project HR/2009/IB/JH/03TL Improvement of Free Legal Aid Systemin Croatia, 2011–2012; Junior Project Leader, a Leader of the Component on the Development of Legal Aid Strategy in Turkey and an Expert in EU Twinning Project TR 13 IB JH 03 Strengthening Legal Aid Services in Turkey, 2016–2018; Expert in EU Twinning Project TR 13 IB JH 03 Implementation of the best European practices with the aim of strengthening the institutional capacity of the Apparatus of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights to protect human rights and freedoms (Apparatus), 2017–2018; Expert in EU Twinning Project TR 15 IPA JH 04 17 Increasing the Organizational Capacity of the Women and Children Sections (WCS) of the Gendarmerie General Command in Turkey, 2018-2020.
LOCAL RESEARCHERS - LITHUANIA
