Alexander Kunzelmann is a legal officer with the International Trade Law Division of the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, which functions as the substantive secretariat for the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

He currently services UNCITRAL Working Group VI on the judicial sale of ships and Working Group IV on electronic commerce. Alex also oversees the secretariat’s exploratory work on legal issues related to the digital economy, which focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in trade, data transactions, and the use of digital assets in trade.

Before joining the United Nations in 2018, Alex worked as a legal adviser with the Attorney-General’s Department in Australia on matters relating to constitutional law, administrative law, and public international law.

Prior to that, he worked in private practice and as a legal officer with the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the Netherlands where he focused on cross-border judicial cooperation.

Alex holds a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of laws from the Australian National University and a master of laws specializing in international law from Leiden University in the Netherlands.