David Scheffer

David Scheffer is the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law. He was the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues between 1997 and 2001, and senior adviser and counsel to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dr. Madeleine Albright, between 1993 and 1996. Scheffer led the U.S. delegation to U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. Foreign Policy listed him among the “Top Global Thinkers of 2011.”