Alex Whiting

Alex Whiting (Bluesky – LinkedIn) is heading back this year to Harvard Law School as a Professor of Practice focusing on international and domestic prosecution issues. From August 2023 until January 2025, he was an Assistant Special Counsel with the Special Counsel’s Office (Jack Smith). From 2019-2024, he was head of Investigations, Deputy Specialist Prosecutor, and then Acting Specialist Prosecutor of the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague. From 2013-2019, he was a Professor of Practice and from 2010-2013 an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School. Between those two stints, from 2010-13, he was the Investigation Coordinator and then Prosecution Coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. From 2002-2007, he was a Trial Attorney and then a Senior Trial Attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where he was lead counsel in several war crimes and crimes against humanity prosecutions. Before the ICTY, he was a U.S. federal prosecutor for ten years, first with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., and then with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.  Whiting attended Yale College and Yale Law School.