Anna Austin qualified as a Solicitor (Law Society of Ireland) in 1991. Having worked for 6 years with A&L Goodbody in Dublin, she joined the European Commission for Human rights in 1994 and, subsequently, the European Court of Human Rights in 1998. Having worked as a Head of Division in the Registry of the Court for 10 years, she was appointed in 2015 the Court’s Deputy Jurisconsult, a position she holds to date. She has also been seconded from those institutions on a number of occasions. She was the Deputy Ombudsperson for Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997. She headed the Office of the Investigating Judges of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia 2008-2009. Anna Austin was also in charge of human rights issues in the Secretariat of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in 2014-2015. In 2013-2015, she acted as the Legal Advisor of the International Advisory Panel on Ukraine.