Jennifer Marcovitz is an Attorney-Adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she has served since 2013. She currently serves in the Office of African and Near Eastern Affairs, where she advises on the full range of legal issues affecting the work of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, including particularly with respect to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. From 2022 through 2024, she served as the Deputy Legal Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands, representing U.S. interests in relation to the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and other international criminal tribunals and private international law institutions in The Hague. Her prior rotations in the Office of the Legal Adviser have included the Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes, where she was a member of the United States’ investor-state dispute team and advised on issues related to investment claims in Central America, including Cuba; the Office of Diplomatic Law and Litigation, where she focused on issues including the privileges and immunities of heads of state and other foreign officials, overseas legal matters in the Middle East region, and privileges and immunities associated with the United Nations; the Office of United Nations Affairs, where she focused primarily on issues related to international criminal accountability; and the Office of Employment Law. Prior to joining the State Department, Jennifer clerked on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and practiced as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, NY. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an Executive Editor of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, and her B.A. in Political Science and French from the University of Pennsylvania.