Rachel Alpert
Rachel Alpert (LinkedIn) is a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where she co-chairs the National Security and Crisis and the Human Rights & Global Strategy practice groups, advising domestic and international clients on a range of issues including export controls and sanctions compliance, business and human rights, supply chain accountability, and national security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Rachel previously served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where she led the team of attorneys who provide legal advice and guidance to OFAC in the administration, implementation, enforcement, and removal of U.S. sanctions. She also served for seven years as an attorney-adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she worked on legal issues affecting U.S. relations with Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and advised on the implementation of approximately $2 billion in U.S. foreign assistance resources to prevent trafficking in persons, combat transnational crime, promote democracy, and provide urgent humanitarian assistance throughout the world.
Rachel holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University, and a BA in International Studies and Political Science from Yale University. She has taught International Law as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School and spent a year in Damascus, Syria as a Frederick Sheldon Fellow, researching and writing about the Syrian legal framework for the international response to the Iraqi refugee crisis.
