Head of Cambodia program
Staff member of Asia program
Special Focus: Prosecutions

Caitlin Reiger joined ICTJ in 2005 and as Deputy Director of the Prosecutions Program she focuses particularly on prosecutions for mass violence in the Asia region, as well as possessing specialized expertise in the operation of hybrid tribunals. Her publications include Prosecuting Heads of State (Cambridge University Press, 2009, co-edited with Ellen Lutz), and she has coordinated and edited numerous reports for the ICTJ prosecutions program and conducted extensive trainings and public presentations on transitional justice. Caitlin also heads ICTJ's work in Cambodia through which she provides technical input and policy advice to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and from 2006 to 2008 she headed the Center's Former Yugoslavia program. From 2003 to 2005 she was the chambers senior legal adviser to the judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. She has worked on post-conflict justice initiatives in several countries and in 2001 she co-founded and served as legal research coordinator of the Judicial System Monitoring Program in East Timor. Ms. Reiger also appeared as defense counsel before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes. Caitlin is an Australian lawyer with a BA(Hons) in History and an LLB(Hons) from the University of Melbourne, and an LLM (International Law/Human Rights) from the London School of Economics. She is also Adjunct Professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.