Rumbidzai Maweni is an associate in Foley Hoag’s Washington D.C. office and a member of the International Litigation and Arbitration Department. She focuses her practice on representing sovereign States in contentious and advisory matters concerning international investment law and public international law.
Prior to joining Foley Hoag, Rumbidzai served as an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, where she supported arbitral tribunals in investor-State, inter-State, and commercial arbitrations related to energy and natural resources, infrastructure, and land and maritime boundaries. She also clerked for Judge Theodor Meron at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague and worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C., where she advised on legal and regulatory policy.
Rumbidzai previously worked in the Paris office of a major international law firm, where she counseled clients in proceedings before ICSID and ICC tribunals and the African Court of Peoples’ and Human Rights. She also served as a research fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.
Rumbidzai obtained her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a recipient of the Parker School Certificate of Achievement in Foreign and Comparative Law and served on the editorial board of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She holds an LL.M. from Universiteit van Amsterdam, an M.Phil from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from the University of Durham, where she graduated First Class Honours.
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