Mark Ellis is the executive director of the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA is comprised of 198 national bar associations and 40,000 individual members from around the world. Prior to joining the IBA, Dr. Ellis was the executive director of the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative, a project of the American Bar Association. He served as legal advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia's War Crimes Tribunal and was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal, serving as legal consultant to the defense team at the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal (ECCC). In 2013, Dr. Ellis was admitted to the List of Assistants to Counsel of the International Criminal Court. In 2015, he was appointed as Chair of the UN created Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defense Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. He was a long-time consultant to The World Bank and adjunct professor at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. A frequent speaker and media commentator on international legal issues, Dr. Ellis appears regularly on CNN International, Al Jazeera, and BBC and has published extensively in the areas of international humanitarian law, war crimes tribunals, and the development of the rule of law. Dr. Ellis serves on a number of boards, including the DLA Piper 'New Perimeter' pro bono project, the Leiden University ICC Moot Court Competition, South African Litigation Center (SALC), the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights UK, the Advisory Committee of the Lloyd N. Cutler Center for the Rule of Law, and Chairman of The CEELI Institute. He also serves on the editorial board for The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law. Twice a Fulbright Scholar at the Economic Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, Dr. Ellis earned his J.D. and economics degrees from Florida State University and his Ph.D. in international criminal law from King's College, London.