<span class="vcard">Todd Buchwald</span>

Todd Buchwald

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Todd F. Buchwald formerly served as Special Coordinator for the State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice from December 2015 through July 2017, and was conferred the rank of Ambassador by President Obama in July 2016. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Buchwald served in a variety of government positions as a career lawyer in the Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, including as the Assistant Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs during the Clinton and Bush Administrations, as Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs during the Bush and Obama Administrations, and as an as an attorney in the Office of White House Counsel under President Reagan. Following his departure from the State Department, he was appointed the inaugural Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, served as fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, and co-chaired (with Beth van Schaack) the American Society of International Law Task Force that produced the report on Policy Options for U.S. Engagement with the International Criminal Court.  In October 2021, Mr. Buchwald was elected to a four-year term as a member of the U.N. Committee Against Torture. He is also a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School, and is a graduate of Cornell University and the Yale Law School. He is also on LinkedIn.

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The blue flag of the International Criminal Court flies outside of the organization's headquarters.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken wears a dark suit and tie sitting in front a crowd during testimony of Capitol Hill.
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Exterior View of the new International Criminal Court building in The Hague on July 30, 2016 in The Hague The Netherlands.
Exterior View of the International Criminal Court building in The Hague.
Exterior View of the International Criminal Court building in The Hague.
Exterior View of the International Criminal Court building in The Hague.
The damaged interior of the hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a press conference at the State Department in Washington DC, on March 17, 2020.
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