Ambassador Lindsay Skoll, CMG

Lindsay Skoll has been UK Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the UN in Vienna since November 2021. She previously served in Pyongyang, Beijing, Indian Ocean and most recently Moscow; Vienna is her third Ambassadorship. She has specialised in security policy issues throughout her 28 year diplomatic career and has a degree in Russian and History

As a diplomat I constantly look at law – and its international application – with a global perspective and often within a peace-making context. Together with a robust international rules based system, and supported by strong democratic values, international law is crucial to underpinning successful diplomatic negotiations, helping guarantee peace dividends and is the basis and catalyst for global cooperation and prosperity. I am incredibly proud of the strong part the UK – and London in particular – plays at the centre of quality legal services and dispute resolutions. Also, our proud tradition of producing inspirational and trail-blazing female legal experts. History shows us that the involvement of women at all stages of law making and in the provision of justice is crucial; and can for example increase the probability of lasting peace agreements by up to 35 percent. Stronger representation of women in law can therefore only genuinely make the world a safer and fairer place.