Anzhela Shmakova

Areas of professional expertise:

• Theory of general international law
• Customary international law
• International environmental law and climate change
• International investment law and arbitration.

In 2025 Anzhela graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University where she received bachelor’s degrees in law.

From August to December 2024, she had been undertaking an internship at the International and Comparative Law Research Center. Previously, Anzhela was an assistant of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russian Federation, where she worked on questions of representation of Russian Federation in organizations of international trade law.

From January 2025, she is a permanent employee of the “Climate and Environment” division of the Center.

Fluent in Russian and English, as well as French at an intermediate level.