Special focus: Vetting and institutional reform

Alexander Mayer-Rieckh, a native of Austria, is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience in post-conflict institutional reform. Mr. Mayer-Rieckh was chief of the Human Rights Office of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina and worked for the United Nations in Geneva, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and East Timor. In 2003, he was the recipient of a fellowship at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Law School, where he conducted research on vetting of public employees in transitional contexts. Mr. Mayer-Rieckh obtained his BA in philosophy at the Hochschule fuer Philosphie in Munich, his MDiv at Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his Masters in Law at the Universities of Vienna and Salzburg.