Alexa Koenig

Alexa Koenig, Ph.D., J.D, is the executive director of the UC Berkeley School of Law Human Rights Center (winner of the 2015 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions) and a lecturer-in-residence at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she teaches classes on human rights and international criminal law.

She is an author, with Victor Peskin and Eric Stover, of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror; the editor, with Sam Dubberley and Daragh Murray, of Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Documentation, Advocacy and Accountability; the editor, with Keramet Reiter, of Extreme Punishment: Comparative Studies in Detention, Incarceration and Solitary Confinement; and a contributor to The Guantánamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices.

She is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, co-chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Human Rights and Technology, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility. She has received several honors for her work, including the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence and the UN Association-SF’s Global Human Rights Award.