Rob Houston is a founding member and Executive Director of The Global Pro Bono Bar Association ("The Global Pro Bono Bar").
As an international arbitration practitioner and the Pro Bono Coordinator for the Singapore office of a global law firm, Rob has coordinated cross-border pro bono representation and advocacy efforts involving multiple collaborating firms, practitioners, scholars, and researchers across four continents. He has spoken on topics related to pro bono work and legal professionalism in venues as diverse as the International Law Association’s 2018 biennial conference in Sydney; the 6th, 7th, and 8th Asia Pro Bono Conferences in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, and Kathmandu; and the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in the Hague.
Rob was previously a visiting researcher with the U.S. Department of State Fulbright Program and served as a Captain in the 1-175 Infantry Battalion of the Maryland Army National Guard, having earned the U.S. Army's Meritorious Service Medal while deployed to Egypt with the Multinational Force & Observers peacekeeping mission in 2011-2012. Rob holds the Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown Law in Washington, DC and the Master of Economic Law degree (Master II, Global Governance Studies) from l'École de Droit de Sciences Po in Paris. He and his wife live in Singapore with their four children.
Jeremy Lagelee, LLM
Member of the Board of Directors
Jeremy Lagelee is a French-American attorney at the International Energy Agency in Paris as well as a founding member of The Global Pro Bono Bar and current member of the Board of Directors.
Jeremy previously served as an associate attorney at Picard Kentz & Rowe LLP in Washington DC, focusing on international trade and arbitration. He also served as a part-time law clerk for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs and Global Competitiveness) in the office of the Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden. Jeremy has been actively engaged in providing pro bono legal services for a variety of organizations both inside and outside The Global Pro Bono Bar, including Catholic Charities (Archdiocese of Washington), International Justice Mission, and the Yemen Peace Project.
Jeremy earned the Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Law from Georgetown Law in Washington, DC and the Master of Economic Law degree (Master II, Global Governance Studies) from l'École de Droit de Sciences Po in Paris. Jeremy is admitted to the Bar in New York and in Paris (article 100 - non inscrit au tableau).
