Optimise opportunities for partnership and impact in the multilateral space

Laila heads our Foundations Practice and contributes to client engagements across the firm. She has a background in security, humanitarian and peacebuilding issues, having spent more than a decade working in the United Nations system.

Emily served as German Ambassador to the United States from 2018 to 2023. Prior to this, she served as state secretary in the Foreign Office until 2014 and as State Secretary in the Interior Ministry overseeing security and migration until 2018.

Poul advises clients on EU policy, drawing on a long career in Danish diplomatic service. He was chief negotiator for the European Council and a senior advisor at European Policy Centre.

Uwe has served at the highest levels in German and EU government. He previously served as European Policy Advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel and spent four years as secretary general of the European Council and the Council of the European Union.

Victor leads our multilateral practice. He was previously a policy analyst at Security Council Report and worked at the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery at the UN Development Programme.

Noah is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is also chair of the Society of Fellows. He specialises in US constitutional studies, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion, free speech, constitutional design and the history of legal theory.

As focuses on global public health. He is co-chair of the WHO/World Bank Global Pandemic Preparedness Monitoring Board. He was previously the secretary-general of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.