Anaëlle Becker

Anaëlle BeckerResearcher

Areas of expertise
  • Migration and asylum
  • Substantive criminal law
  • Social inclusion policy
  • Legal and policy research and analysis
Education
  • LLM European Law, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
  • Master’s degree in French and International Law, Sciences Po Paris (FR)
  • BA Humanities and Social Sciences, Sciences Po Paris (FR)
Languages
  • French, English, Spanish

Anaëlle Becker is a French and Swiss national, working as a Legal Researcher at Milieu since September 2024. She holds a Master’s degree in French and International Law from Sciences Po Paris, as well as an LLM in European Law from the Institute for European Studies of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Anaëlle has developed her career in both legal and policy matters. After her time in a French law firm and two NGOs, she became a parliamentary assistant trainee in the European Parliament on migration and asylum matters. She then did a traineeship at the European Commission for the Directorate-General Justice and Consumers (in the unit on General Criminal Law), working on the PIF Directive and the then ongoing negotiations on the environmental crime directive and the directive criminalising the violation of EU sanctions. Before joining Milieu, she worked as a project manager for the Belgian Federal Public Planning Service for Social Integration during the Belgian Presidency of the EU Council.

Anaëlle is proficient in French and English, with a good command of Spanish and an intermediate level in Dutch.