Ornella studied at Sciences Po Strasbourg, including one year in the Erasmus program at the law department of the University of Seville, Spain and obtained a Professional Master II European Business Law from Université Paris II Panthéon – Assas. 

Ornella has furthered her education at Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris (EFB), holds the Certificat d’Aptitude a la Profession d’Avocat (CAPA), and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2011.

She had a first experience in the arbitration department of Zulficar & Partners (Cairo, Egypte), and worked as an Associate at Taylor Wessing (Paris, France) in the economic law department. Ornella joined PLCJ Ltd in 2016 and was named Partner in 2019.