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Bianca Nalbandian
Bianca Nalbandian is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law in the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution.
She graduated with a dissertation in European Union Law at the University La Sapienza of Rome. In 2017, she obtained an LLM in International Trade and Investment Law from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) by means of a public scholarship from the European Social Fund Programme of the Italian Region of Lazio.
Before joining the Institute in March 2019, Bianca worked as an associate in an Italian law firm in Rome, mainly in international arbitration and litigation practices. She is now conducting her PhD research at the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Prof. Ruiz Fabri in cotutelle with the University of Turin. Her research addresses the role of sovereign investors in the context of international investment law and investment arbitration. Moreover, outside the immediate scope of her doctoral research, she also focuses on environmental and climate change issues in the context of investment policies by sovereign investors.