Léa Auffret is Senior International Affairs Officer and Team Leader at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. BEUC represents 46 independent national consumer associations from 32 European countries. The primary task of BEUC is to act as a strong consumer voice in Brussels and to try to ensure that consumer interests are given their proper weight in all EU policies. Within BEUC, Léa follows the EU developments around consumer rights in the international context. She leads the International Affairs team coordinating BEUC’s policies in the area of free trade agreements, customs, international cooperation between regulators and related topics.

She became Vice-President of the EU Domestic Advisory Group under the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement in 2022, and she is EU co-chair of the trade committee of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD).

Léa holds a Masters degree in International Affairs with a specialization on International Trade from Le Havre University in France and a Masters degree in European Politics and Administration from the College of Europe in Bruges. Prior to joining BEUC, Léa acquired experience in France, Latin America and Brussels.