Verity Robson

Biography

Verity Robson is the Legal Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva, where she provides advice on public international law and negotiates multilateral agreements.

She previously served as an international law adviser in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Government Equalities Office, and undertook a secondment to a public inquiry into allegations that international law was breached by the UK in Iraq.

Verity holds Master’s degrees from the University of St Andrews and SOAS, University of London. She has been admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales and in Scotland.

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Previous roles in government

  • Legal Counsellor at the UK Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organisations in Geneva