Inês Horta Pinto is a Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State for Justice at the Portuguese Ministry of Justice. Formerly a Legal Officer at the Human Rights Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Horta Pinto has also held positions at the Constitutional Court of Portugal and as a Legal Adviser to the Minister of Justice of Portugal. She holds a PhD in Criminal Law, alongside a Law degree and a Master in Criminal Law, from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and has been involved in academia as both a Teaching assistant and researcher, in both Europe and the United States.

As mentioned in our submission / abstract, we plan to include further perspectives (practitioner, lived experience, etc) in the panel discussion, and we are in communications with additional panelists (project stakeholders) on this while awaiting the confirmation of details for the time slot of our session. A person with lived experience of the Hungarian criminal justice / probation will potentially be able to join the panel, and we would like to inquire whether it would be possible to wave their registration fee as part of the concession scheme that is mentioned on the event site. We appreciate your consideration, and hope you will support the inclusion of a lived experience perspective in this way.