Board of Advisors

Michael S. Greco
Chair
President, American Bar Association (2005-06) Of Counsel, K&L Gates LLP

Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni (1937-2017)
Professor Emeritus, DePaul University College of Law Co-founder, International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences

Hon. Todd F. Buchwald
Special Coordinator and Ambassador, U.S. Department of State Office of Global Criminal Justice (2015-17)

Hon. Thomas Buergenthal
Professor of Law, George Washington University Judge of the International Court of Justice (2000 - 10)

Gen. Wesley K. Clark
Chairman & CEO Wesley K. Clark & Associates; former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO

Hon. Hans Corell
Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations (1994-2004)

Prof. David M. Crane
Professor of Law, Syracuse University Chief Prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2002-05)

Hon. Bernice B. Donald
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Benjamin B. Ferencz
Chief Prosecutor for the United States in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, Nuremberg Trials (1947-48)

Prof. Donald M. Ferencz
Founder of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression

Hon. Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
President-elect of the ICC Assembly of States Parties (2021- ); President of the ICC (2015-18)

Hon. Richard J. Goldstone
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1994-96)

Hon. Thomas Graham, Jr.
Acting Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1994-97)

Christopher "Kip" Hale
Atrocity Crimes Attorney

Hon. Gabrielle Anne Kirk McDonald
President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1997-99)

Hon. Philippe Kirsch
President of the International Criminal Court (2003-09)

Col. William K. Lietzau
Director, U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency; U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law and Detainee Policy (2010-13)

Hon. Navanethem Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-14)

Prof. Michael Newton
Professor of Practice, Vanderbilt University

Hon. Sandra Day O'Connor
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1981-2006)

Dr. Claudia Paz y Paz
Prosecutor General of Guatemala (2010-14)

Hon. Stephen J. Rapp
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2009-15)

Prof. Leila Nadya Sadat
James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law and Director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, Washington University School of Law; Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor

Hon. David Scheffer
Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001)

Hon. Thomas Siebert
U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1994-98)

Prof. Jane E. Stromseth
Francis Cabell Brown Professor in International Law, Georgetown Law; Former Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice (2013-15)

William Taft IV
Chief Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State (2000-04)

Prof. Beth Van Schaack
Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights, Stanford Law School; Former Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues

Hon. Patricia Wald (1928-2019)
Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1979 – 1999) Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1999-2002)

Prof. Alex Whiting
Head of Investigations, Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office, Prosecutions Coordinator and Investigations Coordinator at the International Criminal Court (2010-2013)

Hon. Clint Williamson
Senior Director for International Rule of Law, Governance and Security, McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University; U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues (2006-09)