Mrs Anne Secomb

Dr Anne Secomb is an independent arbitrator working out of Secomb Arbitration (Singapore/Paris). She has some twenty years’ experience in the field of international arbitration, having sat as arbitrator under most major arbitral rules.

She is educated in both the civil law and the common law traditions, admitted to the Berlin and New York bars.* She is also a former member of the Paris bar.

Anne has been an independent arbitrator for more than a decade. She started developing her practice as an arbitrator after moving to Singapore in 2015. She has sat on cases under the HKIAC, ICC, JCAA, KCAB and SIAC Rules.

From April to June 2018, she was also Counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration, opening and establishing the Secretariat’s Singapore office.

Prior to moving to Singapore, Anne was Secretary to the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR in Paris, the ICC’s dispute resolution think tank. In that role, she oversaw taskforces on various topics such as ‘Costs in International Arbitration’, ‘The Use of IT in Arbitration’ and ‘Financial Institutions and International Arbitration’.

Before that, Anne was a counsel to the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris where she was in charge of the case management team administrating cases dealing mainly with Switzerland, Italy and Austria, overseeing hundreds of cases.

Prior to joining the ICC, Anne worked as a lawyer at Salans (now Dentons) in Paris, where she represented parties in numerous administrated as well as ad hoc arbitrations. During that time, she also acted as tribunal secretary in commercial and ICSID matters.

Anne is trilingual in English, German and Spanish and speaks French fluently.