INTERCULTURAL

LEADERS

Mark V. Vlasic

Fellowship Programme

Mark V. Vlasic is a senior fellow and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and a principal at Madison Law & Strategy Group, where he heads the firm’s international practice. A public sector specialist at the World Bank Group, Mark served as the first head of operations of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative. Before joining the Bank, he served as a White House Fellow/special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, advisor to the President’s Special Envoy to Sudan, and was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service by Secretary Gates. Mark practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and served on the Slobodan Milosevic and Srebrenica genocide prosecution teams at the UN war crimes tribunal. He has taught the Iraqi judges that tried Saddam Hussein, served on the U.S. Delegation to the Pan Am 103 “Lockerbie” bombing trial, provided commentary to BBC, CNN, FOX, CBS, and NPR, and been published by the New York Times/IHT, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and others. A U.S. Army officer, he has been attached to Capitol Hill and the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Mark studied business, theology and government at Georgetown, and received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. He holds a Certificate in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law and conducted post-doctorate research at Universiteit Leiden as a NAF-Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands. Mark is a member of the Bars of California, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Trade Representative/Secretary of Commerce’s Industry Advisory Committee on Services & Finance Industries, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the White House Fellow Foundation, Humanity in Action Foundation, and NCAC Fulbright Association Boards of Directors.