New Trends for Accountability for International Crimes

Ana Peyró Llopis has been the Principal Legal Officer of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations since 2015. She also served as Acting Director of Legal Affairs and as Acting Special Adviser in other United Nations entities. Prior to joining the United Nations, she held various academic positions at universities in Spain, France and the United States and engaged in research initiatives at a global level. She also served as Senior Legal Adviser at the Ministry of Justice of Spain. She holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne-France) and the University Jaume I (Spain), a postdoc in international law from New York University, and Master’s degrees in International Law and International Organizations (Panthéon-Sorbonne-France), Constitutional Rights and Duties (Jaume I-Spain), and National Defense (Centro Superior de Estudios de la Defensa Nacional-Spain). She speaks fluent Spanish, French, English and Italian.