Anissia Morel entered the French civil service in 2008 through the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. She joined the Conseil d’Etat, France’s Supreme Court for Administrative Affairs, gaining an extensive experience of judicial review (2010-2015). In parallel, she was regularly consulted as a legal adviser to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry for Culture. In 2015, Anissia was seconded to the UK Foreign Office as Senior Policy Planner covering Strategic Affairs, Russia, and Eastern Europe (2015-2017). She took up the post of Legal and Political Adviser at the French Embassy to the UK (2018-2022) before serving the French Foreign Secretary as UN, G7 and global affairs adviser. Anissia returned to the Conseil d’Etat in 2023 covering constitutional and home affairs. In February 2024, she began her current posting at director of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni & Counsellor for Culture and Cooperation at the French Embassy to the UK.
