Elspeth Guild holds a Global Chair in Social Justice at the University of Liverpool and is Emerita Professor at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands and Queen Mary University of London. She has a PHD in law from the Radboud University and a PHD honoris causa from the University of Lund. She has been a partner at the London based law firm Kingsley Napley where she acted for clients in the field of immigration, borders and asylum law. She regularly advises EU and Council of Europe institutions on migration and asylum related matters. She has written numerous studies for the European Parliament including Visas for Human Rights Defenders in 2024. She also advises the Council of Europe and has written two Issue Papers for the Commissioner for Human Rights, one on the right to leave a country the other on criminalization of migration. In 2022 she assisted the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly with an analysis of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum resulting in resolution 2416 (2022). Her most recent book is entitled Monitoring Border Violence in the EU: Frontex in Focus. Taylor & Francis, 2023.