Kate Vigneswaran

Kate Vigneswaran is an expert in gender, conflict, and international criminal law with over 20 years of experience advocating for accountability for violations of international law in multiple country contexts. Vigneswaran is currently director of the Global Accountability Initiative at the International Commission of Jurists. Previously, she was the head of the International Accountability Platform for Belarus (IAPB), a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and in senior positions at the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Rights Compliance, the International Commission of Jurists, and Fortify Rights, collecting evidence and reporting on gross human rights violations and international crimes committed in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. She holds a Master of Laws from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in law from Queensland University of Technology.