Kip Hale

Christopher 'Kip' Hale has led numerous investigations of atrocity crimes for the United Nations and non-governmental organizations in conflict zones in the Middle East/North Africa and Southeast Asia, in addition to being an accomplished, well-known commodity in policy and advocacy circles of international criminal justice. Currently, he is the Chief of Staff for the Reckoning Project. Previously, Kip served as Chief of Staff for the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group for Ukraine and its lead implementer, Georgetown Law. Before this post, he was the Investigation Team Leader at the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Libya. He has also been a prosecuting attorney in the Office of the Co-Prosecutors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), and has done legal defense work and advised Judges at the U.N.-International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, The Netherlands. Kip was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and currently serves on the Advisory Council of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative, and on the Council of Advisors for the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression. He has written on a broad range of issues in the field of international criminal justice in publications around the world, including Foreign Affairs, Just Security, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the European Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice.