Anna Joubin-Bret

Anna Joubin-Bret (born 2 February 1962) is a French lawyer. She is the Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and Director of the International Trade Law Division (ITLD) in the Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) of the UN Secretariat since 2017.

Education In 1985, she obtained an M.A. in International Commercial Law and a Diplôme d'études approfondies in Private International Law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

In January 2012, she was admitted to the Paris bar and became a partner in the Paris office of the US law firm Foley Hoag LLP, specializing in business law and in international commercial and investment arbitration. She set up Cabinet Joubin-Bret in May 2013 and from there acted as counsel and arbitrator in mediation and arbitration proceedings under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and UNCITRAL. She advised governments in international investment negotiations and disputes.

In March 1998, she was elected Regional Counsellor for the Rhône-Alpes region. She served as judge at the Commercial Court in Grenoble (France). She was designated to the list of Conciliators of the Chairman of ICSID from 2010-2016 and to the list of arbitrators of several arbitration centers.

Joubin-Bret has taught commercial law at universities and institutes.

In November 2017, Joubin-Bret became the ninth Secretary