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Anna Gelpern

Russian-American legal scholar

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About Anna Gelpern

Anna Gelpern was an American.

Anna Gelpern is a legal scholar and expert on sovereign debt and financial regulation. She is Professor of Law and the Agnes N. Williams Research Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Biography

Gelpern was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union. In the early 1980s her family migrated to the United States where she became a citizen. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She then practiced law with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York and London.

Between 1996 and 2002, she served in legal and policy positions at the US Treasury Department.

She co-directs the Sovereign Debt Forum, a collaboration among Georgetown Law’s Institute of International Economic Law and academic institutions in the United States and Europe, dedicated to cutting-edge research and capacity building in sovereign debt management.

She has worked as an expert for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In particular, she was involved in the drafting of the collective action clauses in Argentina's sovereign debt contracts.

She is frequently quoted in U.S. and international media on issues that issue sovereign debt restructuring and banking sector policy.

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Important facts

Born
Saint Petersburg
Nationality
Education
Princeton University, Harvard Law School, London School of Economics and Political Science
Positions held
Full professor
Employers
Rutgers Law School, Washington College of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Frequently asked questions

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Anna Gelpern was born in Saint Petersburg.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Anna Gelpern

· Wikidata: Q100310345

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