Anthea Roberts, a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar who focuses on new ways of thinking about complex and evolving global fields. Her research areas include public international law, international trade and investment, the effect of geopolitical change on global governance, and understanding and navigating complex systems. Anthea chairs the ANU Working Group on Geoeconomics and has recently published Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters (co-authored with Nicolas Lamp) with Harvard University Press.

In 2019, the League of Scholars named Anthea the world’s leading international law scholar and Australia’s leading law scholar based on the quality of her publications and the quantity of citations they had received. Her last book Is International Law International? (2017) won numerous prizes, including the American Society of International Law’s Book Prize, and was Oxford University Press’s top-selling law monograph worldwide in 2017-2018. Anthea has twice been awarded the Francis Deák Prize for the best article published in the American Journal of International Law by a younger scholar and received an ANU Futures Award and a UK Philip Leverhulme Prize.