Julia is a Partner based in Fragomen’s London office. She specialises in Global Government Strategies and Compliance. In an increasingly challenging geopolitical environment, Fragomen's unique Advisory Practice supports clients worldwide to optimise global mobility strategies, enhance compliance and leverage best practice in all critical immigration-related policies including crisis management.
Before joining Fragomen, Julia was a Partner, Legal Markets Leader and Head of Global Immigration at PwC leading complex multi-jurisdictional client engagements and providing strategic global immigration advice. Julia has unique experience in crisis management. She has advised several governments particularly on visa processing systems and communications and on citizenship by investment programmes. Julia has been liaising with government and business on Brexit and has given expert evidence at the European Parliament. She has also represented business at the Prime Minister’s immigration stock take meeting and acted as an advisor to the Home Office on business, investment and growth.
Julia was recently appointed to the Society for Human Resource Management’s Immigration Speciality Panel and to the board of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Julia is also a member of the Mayor of London’s Brexit Advisory Group and the Home Office EU Immigration Employer’s Representative Group. She is the co-signatory of the London First/PwC Report on the impact of migrant workers in London and further report entitled ‘Global Britain’ covering Immigration options post Brexit released in November 2018. Julia sits on the Advisory Board of Migration Matters Trust, the Permits Foundation and the Migration Museum.
Julia is also the Chair of the international Bar Associations Human Rights Institute Charitable Trust, a member of the Chatham House Refugee Forum and a member of the Advisory Committee of COMPASS, at the University of Oxford.
Education
Harvard Business School | Leading Professional Services Firms course, 2007
SOAS University of London | Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Comparative Law, 1981
Awards
Named to Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom, 2020
Listed in Who's Who Legal: Corporate Immigration, 2020
Named a Thought Leader: Corporate Immigration, Who’s Who Legal, 2019 to 2021
Listed in Best Lawyers, 2019
Professional Accomplishments / Memberships
Memberships:
Chair, International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute Charitable Trust
Member, Chatham House Refugee Forum
Member, Advisory Committee of COMPASS at the University of Oxford
Member, Mayor of London’s Brexit Advisory Group
Member, Home Office EU Immigration Employer’s Representative Group
Member, Advisory Board of Migration Matters Trust
Member, Permits Foundation
Member, Migration Museum
Publications and Lectures
Speaker, “Global Immigration Trends.” New England Relocation Association’s “Wicked Good” Learning Series: Session 3, 19 November 2020.
Interviewed, "Fragomen Gains Immigration Expert, Brexit Adviser from PwC." Law360, 14 Feb. 2019.
Interviewed, "Q&A: Fragomen Taps Big Four's PwC for Its Newest Partner." The American Lawyer, 7 Feb. 2019.