Caitlin Reiger is deputy director of the prosecutions program at the International Center for Transitional Justice. An expert on internationalized prosecutions, from 2003 to 2005 she was the chambers senior legal adviser to the judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. In 2001, she co-founded and served as legal research coordinator of the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor and later appeared as defense counsel before East Timor’s Special Panels for Serious Crimes.

Reiger has provided extensive policy advice and comparative research on national-international tribunals for serious human rights violations. Reiger manages the ICTJ’s Cambodia program and managed the ICTJ’s former Yugoslavia program. She received a BA in history and an LL.B from the University of Melbourne (1996) and an LL.M (in international law/human rights) from the London School of Economics (2003).

Juan E. Méndez is president of the International Center for Transitional Justice. Until March 31, 2007, he was also, concurrently, the Special Advisor to the Secretary General (UN) on Prevention of Genocide.

At Human Rights Watch he directed the Americas division (1982-1993) and was later general counsel (1994-1996). He was executive director of the Inter‑American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica (1996-1999). From 2000 to 2003 he was a member—and in 2002 the president—of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Organization of American States.

He has taught at the University of Notre Dame Law School (1999-2004) where he was also the director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights. Earlier he had taught at Georgetown Law School and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and he teaches regularly at the Oxford Master's Program in International Human Rights Law. He has published several articles and edited volumes on the Inter-American system of human rights protection, on transitional justice, on torture and forced disappearances, and on human rights developments in Latin America. He was born in Argentina and has practiced law there and in the United States.

Ellen L. Lutz is the executive director of Cultural Survival, an international human rights organization that works on behalf of indigenous peoples, and co-editor of Prosecuting Heads of State.

She previously directed the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution and taught international human rights law, international criminal law, and other international law subjects at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. From 1989 to 1994, she served as the California director for Human Rights Watch and as that organization’s principal researcher on Mexico.

She has written widely on human rights and conflict resolution, international and transnational accountability for human rights violations, indigenous rights, and human rights in Latin America. Lutz received her JD from the University of California, Berkeley (1985), and her MA in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College (1978).

Scott Horton is a contributing editor at Harper's magazine and lectures at Columbia Law School and Hofstra Law School.  A New York attorney known for his work in emerging markets and international law, especially human rights law and the law of armed conflict, Horton served as counsel to Andrei Sakharov and Elena Bonner, among other activists in the former Soviet Union.

Horton is a co-founder of the American University in Central Asia, and has been involved in some of the most significant foreign investment projects in the Central Eurasian region. He recently led a number of studies of abuse issues associated with the conduct of the war on terror for the New York City Bar Association, where he has chaired several committees, including, most recently, the Committee on International Law. He has written extensively on the importance of accountability for abuses committed by U.S. officials.

He is also a member of the board of the National Institute of Military Justice, the Andrei Sakharov Foundation, the EurasiaGroup, and the American Branch of the International Law Association.

President
Open Society Institute

Aryeh Neier is president of the Open Society Institute. Prior to joining the Open Society Institute in 1993, he served for 12 years as executive director of Human Rights Watch, of which he was a founder in 1978. Before that, he worked 15 years at the American Civil Liberties Union, including eight years as national executive director. He served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University for more than a dozen years.

Neier is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has published in periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Foreign Policy. For a dozen years he wrote a column on human rights for The Nation. He has contributed more than a 150 op-ed articles in newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune. Author of six books, including his most recent, Taking Liberties (2003), Neier has also contributed chapters to more than 20 books.

He has lectured at many of the country’s leading universities. He is the recipient of six honorary degrees and the American Bar Association’s Gavel Award and the International Bar Association’s Rule of Law Award.