She is a Public International Law & Human Rights Lawyer. She is recognised in Legal 500 as having ‘a keen intellect and polished communication skills as well as an ability to give client-focused and concise advice in a no-nonsense yet considered way’.

April 2019 – March 2022 (3 years): Legal Advisor, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, London, United Kingdom.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

As legal adviser in the Europe and Human Rights team and subsequently in the International Institutions and Security Policy team, I advised on legal issues relating to the FCDO’s strategic priorities.

January 2021 – January 2022 (1 year 1 month): Students and AIJA Liaison Officer, International Bar Association.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• In my capacity as Outgoing President of AIJA, I served a one-year term with the IBA’s Young Lawyers Committee to strengthen links and identify opportunities for collaboration between the IBA YLC and AIJA.

August 2020 – August 2021 (1 year 1 month): Immediate Past President AIJA – International Association of Young Lawyers, 3 years, Brussels Metropolitan Area.

• President: September 2019 – August 2020 (1 year)
• First Vice President: September 2018 – September 2019 (1 year 1 month)

December 2017 – March 2019 (1 year 4 months): Member, The Permanent Observer Mission of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the United Nations, Geneva Area, Switzerland.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• I complemented my full-time masters degree at the Geneva Academy with practical multilateral experience working for the Sovereign Military Order of Malta’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in Geneva.
• The birth of the Order dates back to around 1050, when it started a hospice infirmary for pilgrims in the Holy Land. It can be considered a precursor of today’s international humanitarian institutions.
• The Order has missions to European and international organisations which are strictly humanitarian, totally voluntary and always impartial.
• The Permanent Observer Mission to the UN in Geneva develops relations with international and intergovernmental humanitarian organisations to inform them about the activities of the Order of Malta and to define possible fields of cooperation.

The Mission’s work in Geneva focuses on:

• Refugees – UNHCR
• Health – WHO
• Relief – OCHA
• Human rights – OHCHR and HRC
• Migration – IOM
• Social matters – ECOSOC

August 2003 – March 2019 (15 years 8 months): Solicitor, Withersworldwide, London, United Kingdom; Geneva, Switzerland.

• With 15 years experience working at Withers LLP’s London and Geneva offices – a leading international private client law firm – my area of specialism includes all types of trust and succession disputes, primarily with an international focus.
• I am co-author of Jordans’ ‘International Trust and Divorce Litigation’ (the leading textbook in this area) and have been recognised as ‘one to watch’ in Global Private Client Elite.
• I have experience as a litigator, advising trustees on risk management and settlors on creating robust structures. Once a problem has arisen I advise on methods to diffuse contention, risk mitigation and alternative dispute resolution as well as on proceedings if necessary.
• I advise trustees and beneficiaries caught up in divorce proceedings and in professional negligence claims in the context of estate planning, trust and succession issues.
• My work includes claims about the validity, construction and rectification of wills and trusts, Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 claims, removal of executors and trustees, setting aside trusts for mistake and contentious estate and trust administrations.
• I have a special interest in art-related claims and am a member of the firm’s art and cultural assets team.
• During a secondment with a leading firm in Jersey, I worked on contentious trust and commercial litigation matters including claims relating to the Madoff fraud, breach of trust claims and setting aside trusts for mistake.

February 2018 – June 2018 (5 months): Legal, TRIAL International, Geneva Area, Switzerland.

Achievements and Responsibilities:

• During my masters degree at the Geneva Academy, I joined a team of lawyers to organise an event hosted by TRIAL International in Geneva to address access to justice for victims of sexual violence in conflict and the role of civil society in the fight against impunity.
• TRIAL International is a non-governmental organisation fighting impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice.
• It provides legal assistance to victims, litigates cases, develops local capacity and pushes the human rights agenda forward.
• The organisation operates in 10 countries where impunity is widespread and ongoing and conducts field missions across the world.
• The long-term objective of the event hosted by TRIAL in Geneva is to establish a committee and action plan for the creation of tools to be developed to assist with litigating claims on behalf of survivors.

1. Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Master of Laws – LLM, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (2017 – 2018).
2. The University of Birmingham, LLB, Law with German Law (1997 – 2001).