As Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA), Mark Ellis leads the foremost international organisation of bar associations, law firms, and individual lawyers in the world. Dr Ellis is an internationally recognised expert on international humanitarian law, war crimes, and the rule of law. He has published extensively on all three, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Huffington Post and The London Times. Dr. Ellis conceived and launched the Southern African Litigation Center (SALC), headquartered in Johannesburg, and eyeWitness to Atrocities. Twice a Fulbright Scholar at the Economic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, he earned his J.D. and B.S. (Economics) degrees from Florida State University and his PhD in Law from King's College, London. He is the recipient of two research grants to the European Union and the Institut d'Etudes Europeenes in Brussels, Belgium, focusing on the law and institutions of the European Union. Mark is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.