Louisa Parks holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute. She is the author of Benefit-sharing in environmental governance: local experiences of a global concept, published in 2020 by Routledge, and Social Movement Campaigns on European Policy: in the corridors and in the streets, published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan. Currently Associate Professor in Political Sociology at the University of Trento’s School of International Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research, she was previously as Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lincoln in the UK, and a research fellow for the BeneLex project on benefit-sharing in global environmental law. Her research has been published in scientific journals in the fields of law, political geography, European studies and political sociology, and has focused on transnational European social movements and their impacts, the European Parliament and civil society participation in the European Union, community protocols as tools for addressing power asymmetries between local communities and different centres of power, indigenous peoples and local communities in the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the role and perceptions of benefit-sharing in local communities.