As Managing Counsel of the ICC International Court of Arbitration, Živa oversees and coordinates the work of the ICC Court Secretariat's case management teams in Paris, New York, Hong Kong, São Paulo and Singapore. On a weekly basis, she reviews a big part of the awards submitted for the ICC Court’s scrutiny as well as appointments and other decisions taken by the ICC Court and provides guidance to the teams in their daily case management. Prior to joining ICC, she worked as a clerk at the Ljubljana district court, as legal assistant to Professor Martin Hunter at Essex Court Chambers in London, as an associate in the Banking and Finance team at Schoenherr Rechtsanwälte Attorneys at Law in Vienna, and as legal counsel at the Bank of Slovenia. She is a Slovenian lawyer and holds an L.L.M. in International Business and Commercial Law from King’s College London (KCL). She was a member of the first KCL’s team for the VIS Moot and KCL team’s main coach during the oral rounds in 2010, which the team won. She is speaks English, Italian, Spanish and French, Croatian, Serbian and German.