Global Governance
The Global Security Outlook
“Why has it become so hard to predict things?” asked Wolfgang Ischinger, Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. He lamented that some of the smartest minds in the world failed to pre...
Mark Vlasic
Professor/Lawyer/Advisor/Producer: ITAC Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce & U.S. Trade Representative; Senior Fellow & Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Principal, Madison Law & Strategy Group (boutique international law/consulting firm focusing on trade, strategic philanthropy, cultural heritage/museum law, policy & human rights); Executive Producer, BLOOD & TREASURE for CBS and AmazonPrime; Executive Producer, Propagate Content (social impact TV); Supervisory Committee, Kinecta Federal Credit Union. Former: Head of Operations, World Bank's StAR Secretariat; White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Adviser to the President's Special Envoy to Sudan; Associate, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Legal Officer (Milosevic/Srebrenica prosecutions), United Nations ICTY; pro bono Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO (re looted antiquities and terrorist financing). Member: U.S. Delegation to the Pan Am 103 "Lockerbie" trial; Council on Foreign Relations; Current/Past Boards: White House Fellow Foundation, Humanity in Action, Atlas Service Corps, DC Fulbright Association; Center on Sanctions & Illicit Finance. Recipient: a Vatican knighthood and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service. BSc and JD (Hons), Georgetown; Fulbright Scholar, Leiden; Cert., Hague Academy of International Law. Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum (2013).
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