Alexander Mayer-Rieckh

Alexander Mayer-Rieckh is a transitional justice and security and justice sector reform expert with 30 years of management and advisory experience in transitional contexts. He holds the position of Key Expert with the EU Facility on Justice in Conflict and Transition. Over the last 17 years, he has worked as an independent consultant advising senior governmental, multilateral and civil society actors on transitional justice and security and justice sector reform in sub-Saharan Africa, the MENA region, South and South-East Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. From 2003 to 2008, Alexander Mayer-Rieckh was the Director of the Security Sector Reform Programme at the International Center for Transitional Justice advising on the intersections between transitional justice and security and justice sector reform. He worked for the United Nations from 1994 to 2002 in Geneva, Rwanda, Eritrea, Timor Leste and Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was Chief of the UN mission’s Human Rights Office. He has published on transitional justice and security and justice sector reform, particularly on vetting of public officials and guarantees of non-recurrence. Alexander Mayer-Rieckh has a Master’s degree in law from the University of Salzburg (Austria).