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Anja is co-founder of the Stockholm-based think tank Climate Change Counsel, where her work focuses on the alignment of international investment law with climate law. She was previously legal counsel at the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and an associate in the global disputes practice at Jones Day's New York office. She also spent six years as a writer and editor at policy-oriented think tanks in Kabul and Washington, D.C. Anja holds a JD from Columbia University in New York, where she was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and a recipient of the Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law. She also earned an LLM in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam and served as a summer clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.