Anna Marhold is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University.

Her specialization is international economic law, with a particular focus on international trade law at the intersection of energy and environmental regulation.

She is also a Visiting Professor at Vermont Law School (USA), where she lectures on comparative EU-US energy law and policy, Visiting Faculty at the World Trade Institute in Bern (CH) and a member of the Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV, Peace and Security Committee).

Both a graduate in Law and Russian (UvA), Anna Marhold obtained her PhD in Law at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (2016).

She was a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland and a recipient of the EU-US Fulbright-Schuman Grant and a visiting scholar at NYU School of Law.

Anna has published widely in the field of international economic, trade and energy law and EU external trade relations.

Her monograph titled Energy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2021) examines energy regulation in international trade law against the backdrop of energy markets that have radically changed over the past decades.

The European Commission appointed her as an Arbitrator and Trade and Sustainable Development Expert in EU Free Trade Agreement Enforcement in 2022.

Anna is furthermore an editor at the Leiden Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press). She is a
member of the Executive Council of the Society for International Economic Law (SIEL) and the Coordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on International Economic Law, as well as a member of the Platform on International Energy Governance.

At Leiden, Anna Marhold teaches Public International Law-related subjects on both Bachelor’s and Master’s level. She convenes courses in International Trade Law in the International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration (IDSA) Advanced LL.M and in the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law. She is a recurring lecturer at the Clingendael Netherlands Institute of International Relations, inter alia in the framework of the WTO – The Netherlands Trainee Programme (NTP).