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Ms. Fedelma Claire Smith is a senior legal counsel and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) representative in Singapore. She joined the PCA as legal counsel in 2011 and served as the PCA Representative in Mauritius from 2012 to 2014. She has previously worked at the International Court of Justice (2008-2010), where she was law clerk to H. E. Judge Awn Al-Khasawneh and H. E. Judge Sir Kenneth Keith. She is a member of the Bar of England and Wales and completed pupillage at Field Court Chambers, London, in 2011. She holds a BA in English Law with German Law from Oxford University and an Advanced LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University.