Vânia Costa Ramos is the Managing Partner at Carlos Pinto de Abreu e Associados, a law firm based in Lisbon, Portugal. Vânia heads the firm’s international, European, extradition, and mutual legal assistance practices. She represents clients before Portuguese courts, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and other regional and international bodies. She provides counsel to both the accused and victims of criminal conduct. In April 2010, Vânia became a member of the Fair Trials Legal Experts Advisory Panel. From February 2016 to March 2022, she served as the Chairperson of Forum Penal, the Association of Portuguese Criminal Lawyers. Since December 2016, Vânia has been a member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) where she represents Portugal. In September 2024, Vânia was elected the Chairperson of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA). Vânia holds a Master's degree in criminal law and is a Ph.D. candidate in criminal procedure at the University of Lisbon, where she was a teaching assistant. Vânia is actively involved in academic life and is a scientific collaborator at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the European Criminal Law Clinic. She is a prolific author and contributor to numerous publications. Her work has appeared in Fair Trials Bulletin, Bulletin of the Order of Advocates (Portugal), Portuguese Journal of Criminal Science, Public Prosecutions Review, Anatomy of Crime, New Journal of European Criminal Law (NJECL) and Transnational Criminal Law Review.