Alka Pradhan

Alka Pradhan (LinkedIn) is a human rights attorney with primary practice as senior civilian counsel employed by the U.S. Department of Defense to represent a defendant in United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al. (the “9/11 Case”) before the Guantanamo Bay military commissions. She is also an Associate Defense Counsel at the International Criminal Court, most recently in Prosecutor v. Al Hassan, and has represented torture victims and civilian drone strike victims in domestic and international courts. Pradhan is Co-Vice-Chair of the IBA’s Rule of Law Forum, a member of the ASIL Executive Council, a Global Democracy Ambassador for the Korea Democracy Foundation, and an adjunct professor at Penn Carey Law School.