Mark Ellis

Mark S. Ellis is Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA), the foremost international organization of bar associations, law firms and individual lawyers in the world. Dr Ellis has published extensively in the area of international law, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, and The Times. Dr Ellis served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, and was appointed by the OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia’s War Crimes Court and acted as legal advisor to the defense team at the Cambodian War Crimes Court (ECCC). He was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal, and is a member of the Disciplinary Advisory Panel to the Defense Counsel for the ICTY and ICTR. Twice a Fulbright Scholar at the Ekonomski Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, he earned his J.D. and B.S. (Economics) degrees from Florida State University and his PhD in Law from King’s College, London. He serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law.