Anthea Jay Kamalnath is an attorney licensed to practice law in California.

Currently, Anthea resides in Geneva, Switzerland where she is a LL.M. (MIDS) candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Center for International Dispute Settlement, specializing in public and private international dispute settlement, with a focus on international commercial arbitration, international investment, and international trade law under ICSID, ICC, PCA, and WTO dispute settlement mechanisms, amongst others. She is a member of the U.S. Council for International Business (the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)‘s National Committee) and USCIB’s Arbitration Committee.

Anthea previously served as a Senior Advisor & Franklin Fellow at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York where she awarded by the U.S. Department of State and Ambassador Samantha Power for her contributions as a successful negotiator and advancing U.S. countering human trafficking goals. Prior to this, Anthea was a Special Deputy Attorney General for the California Department of Justice in the Executive Office of then Attorney General Kamala Harris. She was also one of the youngest foreign policy advisors for Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, leading the Latin America team in the “Democracy, Human Rights, and Law” section.

Anthea is a member of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association, the International Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Anthea has served on Advisory and Editorial Boards of the Journal of Politics and Law, the UCL Jurisprudence Review, the US National Committee for UN Women - Los Angeles, and Ethics in Tech. Anthea is the first Choate Rosemary Hall Fellow of Rhetoric and winner of the Optimist International Oratorical Contest. Her published literary works from her youth have been taught at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Anthea received a LL.B. Honors from University College London and a LL.M. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Her law school senior thesis in law and neuroeconomics was published in the Journal of Advanced Research in Law and Economics. She is an alum of the University of Cambridge, Newnham College and Choate Rosemary Hall.