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Board of Directors and Advisory Board

The Reckoning Project is grateful to the following board members who ensure our work is executed to the highest international standard. Our board members also ensure that when human rights abuses are perpetrated they are communicated worldwide and justice is pursued.

Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors, comprised of an international team of professionals specializing in international law, human rights, and media, approves policies and bylaws and provides oversight for the activities of The Reckoning Project.

Fredrik Wesslau

Fredrik Wesslau

Board Chair

Diplomat and author working on international conflicts and crises for the EU, UN, and OSCE. Has gathered evidence and prepared war crime cases tied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Rebecca Harms

Rebecca Harms

Secretary

Politician tied to the European Green Party, member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, and active advocate for the anti-nuclear movement.

Geneviève Zubrzycki

Geneviève Zubrzycki

Governance Board Member

Author and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan.

Kenneth Roth

Kenneth Roth

Governance Board Member

Attorney, human rights activist, writer, and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch with numerous human rights investigative and advocacy missions around the world. Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs.

Andrew Gilmour

Andrew Gilmour

Governance Board Member

Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation. Served 30 years at the UN, as an adjunct fellow at CSIS, and as a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

Patrick Costello

Patrick Costello

Governance Board Member

Senior Vice President at Mercury Public Affairs and a recognized expert in U.S. foreign policy, trade policy, and business diplomacy.

Susan Steele

Susan Steele

Treasurer

Chair of Filtered Technologies and a Venture Partner at Emerge Education

David J. Simon

David J. Simon

Governance Board Member

Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and in the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale.

Sevgil Musaieva

Sevgil Musaieva

Governance Board Member

Editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, reporter, author, member of the Crimean Tatars, and named one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022 by Time.

Board of Directors

Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board is comprised of experts and professionals in relevant fields who share their expertise and insight with our staff.

Bonnie Weir

Senior lecturer and assistant dean for undergraduate education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and founding co-director of the Program on Peace and Development at Yale University.

Carl Bildt

Co-chair of the European Council of Foreign Relations and former prime minister and foreign minister of Sweden.

Claus Kress

Chair for German and International Criminal Law and Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne.

Corinne Dufka

Former senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea, and in charge of the organization's work in West Africa.

Gillian Tett

Columnist and editor-at-large US of the Financial Times. Writes a weekly column for FT, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues.

James Silk

Binger Clinical Professor of Human Rights at Yale Law School and director of Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights.

Jeff Montgomery

Jeff is an experienced private equity and venture capital professional, having raised and invested $1.5 billion in European media/information, telecoms, and technology companies over the last 35 years. He has held board of director/trustee positions in more than 30 companies and six charitable organisations across 19 countries.

Kai Sauer

Ambassador of Finland to Germany, and the former Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Security Policy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Linda Kinstler

Executive Editor of The Dial magazine, contributing writer for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine and for Jewish Currents, and author of Come to This Court and Cry.

Natacha Weiss

Field Coordinator for World Connect, specializing in development impact analysis with a focus on gender and displaced communities. Has carried out over 30 missions across Africa, Europe and South America with Refugees International and World Connect and is the founder of the "American Friends of the Bambi Homes Colombia."

Oleksandra Matviichuk

Ukrainian human rights lawyer and head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, for which she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2023.

Philippe Sands

Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, author, and barrister with specialization in international law.

Richard Rogers

Executive Director of Climate Counsel, former Senior Legal Officer at the Appeals Chamber of the UN Tribunal for Yugoslavia, Principal Defender at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and Chief Legal System Monitor in Kosovo.

Serhii Plokhy

The Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

Timothy Garton Ash

Author of European political writing on historical transformation, professor, and Guardian columnist

Timothy Snyder

Author, the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

Wayne Jordash

Barrister with clients including governments, multilateral institutions, NGOs, corporations, and individuals. Founding partner of GRC and key expert in CoE’s business and human rights program.

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