Annick Vanhoutte

Annick Vanhoutte

Annick Vanhoutte is currently Senior Legal Officer, General Legal Affairs Service, Legal and Ethics Office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in Rome, Italy. She joined FAO in 1990 as a Legal Officer and became over the years the focal point for fisheries and aquaculture related legal matters in the Development Law Service of the Legal Office (LEGN). After 15 years in the Development Law Service, she became Chief of the Administrative Law Service responsible for advising on HR legal matters organisation-wide, including disciplinary matters, internal appeals, legal HR matters, interpretation of the FAO HR rules and regulations. As Senior Legal Officer she deals with array of legal subject-matters including relationships with host government, with FAO’s Governing and Statutory Bodies, Privileges and Immunities of FAO assets, properties and staff and administrative law matters and many more.