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Leire Larracoechea

ESP
Cofounder and Executive Director, Fundacion Pro Bono Espana
Speaker: Global Clearinghouse Lab, The Americas and Europe - Exchange of Ideas, October 19 Leire Larracoechea is Cofounder and Executive Director of Fundación Pro Bono España. Prior to that, Leire was the Director of Pro Bono Partnerships at the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, and Co- Coordinator of the Pro Bono Network of the Americas. She was responsible for the Pro Bono Partnerships Program, building and maintaining relationships with law firms, pro bono clearinghouses, and other legal institutions worldwide that collaborate with the Vance Center to give pro bono legal advice and support to nonprofit organizations. Previously, Leire worked at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira, in its Pro-International Advocacy Program. Leire was awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study the ingredients for developing pro bono service in Spain both at Harvard and at the Vance Center.