The ILF Board of Directors
The members of the Board of Directors of the ILF have extensive practical and academic expertise in criminal defense, and considerable field experience in post-conflict countries. Although their backgrounds are different, the board members have one common goal: the establishment of fair criminal justice systems in post-conflict countries. |
Natalie Rea, its president and executive director, was the founder of Legal Aid Rwanda. Born in New York and raised in France, she graduated from the Universite d'Aix-Marseille and from Fordham University School of Law. After clerking for Judge Thomas C. Platt in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and working at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, she joined the Criminal Appeals Bureau of The Legal Aid Society in New York, where she represents indigent defendants at the appellate level
Ms. Rea was a volunteer lawyer for Legal Aid Rwanda, participated in the International Law Seminars at the Afghan University in Peshawar in 2000-01, and set-up the project in Afghanistan. |
Philipp Ackermann received a Ph.D. in art history from Bonn University and subsequently, joined the German Foreign Service. Among other appointments, Mr. Ackermann has served as an exchange diplomat in the Foreign Office of the Netherlands. Most recently, he was assigned to the German Embassy in Morocco and served as First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations in New York before becoming first the principal speechwriter to former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and then a member of the inner cabinet of Foreign Minister, Frank Walter Steinmeier.
In 2006, he was assigned to be the civilian head of the German Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kunduz, Afghanistan. He is now assigned to the German Embassy to India in Delhi. |
Tigran Eldred graduated from Georgetown University and Fordham University School of Law. After clerking for the Honorable James L. Oakes, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he worked at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell and later for the Criminal Appeals Bureau of The Legal Aid Society in New York.
From 1997-2000, Tigran was the National Outreach Director for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First) where he coordinated a national effort to promote the rights of political refugees and the International Criminal Court. He then went on to become Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University Law School and in June 2006, became a professor on the faculty of the Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon. |
Konrad Huber graduated from Brown University and received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. After two years as adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities he spent three years with the United Nations Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda reporting on large-scale abuses by the Government of Rwanda.
Between 2001 and 2003, he was UNICEF's peacebuilding adviser in Indonesia, where he managed programs in the Malukus, Aceh, Papua, and other conflict-affected regions. From 2003-04, Konrad was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where he wrote primarily on conflict management efforts in Indonesia, particularly regarding Aceh. Konrad is currently Africa Team Leader for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives.
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