Patsilí Toledo Vásquez is a lecturer, researcher, and consultant specialising on legal responses to gender-based violence. Her research focuses on the criminalisation of femicide/feminicide and sexual violence, especially in Latin American and South Asian countries. She holds a PhD on public law from Autonomous University of Barcelona and a law degree and a postgraduate diploma on women human rights from University of Chile. She has been Adviser on women and LGBTIQ+ rights to the Minister of Equality and Feminisms of the Government of Catalonia (Spain) and is currently adjunct professor on gender and criminal justice at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).