Lucio Gussetti

Lucio Gussetti is a senior Manager and Principal Legal Advisor of the European Commission on International Law and on the Relations of the EU with the World.

In his over 30 years as an EU official, his primary area of expertise has been International Law applied to EU Law, whose primary legal challenges concern the nature of the EU as an independent actor on the international stage – including negotiations of international agreements and treaties – and the constitutional relations between the EU and its Member States.

Mr. Gussetti represented the EU in court actions before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and before the WTO Dispute Settlement bodies in Geneva; he supervised team in judicial actions and interventions on behalf of the EU before foreign and international Courts including the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Gussetti has represented the EU for over a decade in the Sixth Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York and in the Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe in Venice.