Maria de Benito Rodriguez

• Consultant and researcher on Border issues and Trafficking in human beings
• Spain

Maria de Benito Rodriguez is a former member of the Spanish National Police (2004-2023), specializing in human trafficking, migration, and border security. Throughout her career, she has worked on the development and democratization of police forces in peacekeeping and political missions. She served in the United Nations Police Division at the Standing Police Capacity (2020-2021), was a Migrants/Refugees Security Advisor for the OSCE Mission to Skopje, North Macedonia (2017-2020), and acted as an asylum instructor for the European Asylum Agency in Italy (2016).

Maria holds a university degree in Teaching from Universidad de Málaga, Spain, along with master’s degrees in Migration Management from ESNECA Business School, Spain and Project Management from ENEB, Spain.