Anthea Roberts

Anthea Roberts is a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), an interdisciplinary researcher, and legal scholar.

Her research areas include public international law, international trade and investment, the effect of geopolitical change on global governance, and understanding and navigating complex systems. Anthea chairs the ANU Working Group on Geoeconomics and has recently published Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters (co-authored with Nicolas Lamp) with Harvard University Press.

Anthea has served as counsel and an expert in investment treaty arbitrations, as an arbitrator and sole arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations, and as a testifying and consulting expert in international law cases. Prior to becoming an academic, Anthea spent five years as a lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and London and was an Associate to Chief Justice Murray Gleeson at the High Court of Australia.