Alice Lacourt

Alice Lacourt

Alice Lacourt is Legal Counsel at the Commonwealth Secretariat, an intergovernmental organisation headquartered in London which helps its 56 member countries worldwide achieve common aims of development, democracy and peace. A member of the Senior Management Group, she leads a team of internationally-recruited qualified lawyers advising on the institutional powers, capacity, privileges and immunities of the Secretariat and the Commonwealth Small States Offices in Geneva and New York. Before joining the Secretariat in 2017, Alice worked at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, joining as an Assistant Legal Adviser, posted as First Secretary (Legal) at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, and then as Legal Counsellor. Alice is interested in rule of law at government and international organisation level and the application of public and private international law in practice. She is qualified as a barrister and as a mediator, and studied Law at Downing College, Cambridge.