Anna Bauböck
Senior Editor - EMEA & Green Ambassadors | The Legal 500 Series
The Legal 500 - Editors
Anna is a senior editor who joined Legal 500 in 2012, has worked across a multitude of regions and juggled various responsibilities. After many years of expanding the Deutschland rankings, she spent two years as US editor, and then as DACH and Benelux editor. Most recently, in 2025, she has taken on oversight over the entire EMEA rankings. In 2021, she also launched the Global Green Guide examining the legal sector’s engagement with sustainability and climate action which continues in the form our Green Ambassador research.
Before her career at The Legal 500, she completed an initial degree in Anthropology, continued her studies with an MA in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cultural Studies and an MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development. At the same time, she completed internships at various NGOs and an international think tank, and worked as a market and policy researcher for a research centre specialising in Japanese clients.
Outside of work, she unwinds with yoga, running and roller derby, and spends a lot of time with her greyhound. She loves hiking and escaping into nature as much as possible and travelling when time allows.