Anna Veneziano
Biography
Anna Veneziano is the Deputy Secretary General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), and a Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Teramo, Italy, with former positions as tenured Professor of European Property Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Her education includes an LL.M degree from the Yale Law School funded by a Fulbright scholarship, and a PhD degree from the University of Florence (Italy).
Her main research and publication areas are on secured transactions, and international, comparative, and European contract and sales law, Among her institutional activities before joining UNIDROIT she was a member of the Compilation and Redaction Group on the DCFR and of the restricted Expert Group set up by the European Commission on a common European law on sales. In respect to the Tripartite Legal Guide, she participated in its development as UNIDROIT representative.