Andre Newburg is a retired partner of the international law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, and former General Counsel and member of executive of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Mr Newburg was born in Berlin in 1928. He is a member of the NY Bar and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. During 1946-48 he served with US Military Intelligence in Austria.

From 1952 until 1991, Mr. Newburg was an associate and then partner of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York and in Paris (1956-59, 1974-76), Brussels (1960-1964) and Hong Kong (1980). He retired from the firm in 1991 to join in the organization of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, serving as General Counsel and member of the Executive Committee. In 1997 he retired from the EBRD and returned to Cleary Gottlieb as counsel in its London office.

He is currently a member of the London Court of International Arbitration and of the International Arbitration Club (London), the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, the development committee of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, a director and former chairman of the American Association for the International Commission of Jurists, a director of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, Inc. and of SEAF Macedonia. He has been a trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and of its Gennadius Library since 1965. Mr. Newburg is an officer of the Order of Leopold II (Belgium) and a member of the Century Association (New York), the Polo (Paris) and Brooks's (London). Mr. Newburg speaks French, German and Russian. He resides in London and in Paris with his wife, Susan Baring.