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David Mandel-Anthony

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David Mandel-Anthony (he/him/his) serves as the Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice in the Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ) at the U.S. Department of State. He oversees a staff of 30 and a foreign assistance grants portfolio of nearly 70M. 

Previously, he served as Acting Director and Senior Advisor in GCJ, where he led and oversaw portfolios to advance U.S. foreign policy on transitional justice, international and hybrid courts, atrocity prevention, and international humanitarian and human rights law. In GCJ, he has also directed portfolios related to Africa, Central America, Near Eastern Affairs, and Ukraine. He has more than 15 years experience working on foreign policy, human rights, and transitional justice at  leading non-governmental organizations, the U.S. Congress, and international courts and institutions.

David has worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Human Rights Watch, Humanity in Action, the international Center for Transitional Justice, the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Public International Law & Policy Group. He also taught transitional justice as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. David has published on emerging trends related to accountability for atrocity crimes and is a frequent public speaker.

Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, David holds a law degree from Fordham University, where he was a Leitner & Crowley Fellow for International Human Rights, and a BA in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote a ethnographic thesis on the human rights struggles of indigenous Guatemalans working in the Mississippi poultry industry. He is also a member of the New York Bar.

Updated February 2025