Elisa Castrolugo

Elisa Castrolugo is an experienced legal and compliance professional and sustainability advocate, most recently based in Europe. In the last several years, she has focused on human rights and sustainability issues within the UN and EU frameworks and is currently exploring academically the intersection of sustainability and world religions at KU Leuven in Belgium. Prior to relocating to Europe, she worked as a federal criminal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for over a decade and as U.S. immigration judge for approximately one year. During her tenure at the DOJ, she completed three special assignments with the DOJ’s Criminal Division, receiving the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for her work on electronic surveillance issues, and serving briefly as the Acting Judicial Attaché in Mexico and then one year in Colombia and Paraguay as the South America Legal Advisor on countering terrorist financing and anti-money laundering. In addition to capacity-building training experience with the DOJ, she has served as Master Thesis supervisor for the international criminal law program at the University of Amsterdam, business law lecturer, and yoga and spinning instructor. She earned a Juris Doctor law degree from Columbia University School of Law and a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Texas at Austin.