Ana Carolina Dall'Agnol

Ana Carolina Dall’Agnol is conducting research on the governance of foreign direct investment in Mozambique under the supervision of Professor Florian Grisel and Dr Christopher Decker. She is the recipient of an Oxford Wolfson-Marriott Scholarship and a full scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. A Santander Travel Grant also supported her fieldwork.

Ana Carolina holds an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge, as well as undergraduate degrees in Law and International Relations from Centro Universitário Curitiba. 

Alongside her research, she has served as a Tutor in Civil Dispute Resolution (Oxford’s Faculty of Law) and in International Commercial Arbitration (Magdalen College).

Between 2022 and 2023, she also worked as an International Projects Consultant at the African Development Bank’s country office in Maputo.

An arbitration lawyer by training, Ana Carolina has acted as counsel and administrative secretary in arbitration proceedings on an as-needed basis. Her practice focuses on international investment and commercial arbitration disputes relating to Latin America and Portuguese-speaking Africa, as well as Brazilian domestic arbitration disputes. Her professional experience includes work for Lee Taube Gabardo (Curitiba), Dechert LLP (Paris), Latham & Watkins LLP (Paris), and PLMJ (Lisbon). She also served as Assistant Editor for Africa at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog from 2019 to 2023, and is currently Assistant Editor of the Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem (Brazilian Arbitration Journal).