{"id":10134,"date":"2025-10-09T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/iiel\/the-institute\/our-faculty\/our-senior-fellows\/aline-bertolin-3\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:48:27","slug":"mark-vlasic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/iiel\/the-institute\/our-senior-fellows\/mark-vlasic\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Vlasic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark<\/span>\u00a0V.\u00a0Vlasic<\/span>\u00a0is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Law & Public Policy at Georgetown University, a Senior Fellow at Massey College in the University of Toronto, and Senior Advisor\/LP at Techstars, the world\u2019s largest pre-seed investor. A former pro bono advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO on \u201cblood antiquities\u201d issues, he is an Executive Producer with CBS Studios, as his international work inspired the lead character \u201cDanny\u201d on the action-adventure social impact series BLOOD & TREASURE on CBS, Paramount, and AmazonPrime.\u00a0Mark<\/span>\u00a0is also an ITAC Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative.<\/p>\n

Mark<\/span>\u00a0is Founder and Chair of the International, Private Diplomacy, and Family Office Practices at Madison Law & Strategy Group, where focuses on \u201cglobal problem-solving,\u201d including corporate diplomacy, hostage negotiations, sovereign engagement\/trade, and philanthropy advising.<\/p>\n

As public sector specialist at the World Bank Group,\u00a0Mark<\/span>\u00a0served as the first head of operations of the StAR Secretariat, a joint United Nations-World Bank presidential initiative to help developing countries recover stolen assets from past dictators.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Bank, he was appointed by President George W. Bush as a White House Fellow, and served as special assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service by Secretary Robert Gates.<\/p>\n

Prior to his government service,\u00a0Mark<\/span>\u00a0practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and served on the Slobodan Milosevic and Srebrenica genocide prosecution trial teams at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague.\u00a0 He has taught the Iraqi judges that tried Saddam Hussein, served on the U.S. Delegation to the Pan Am 103 \u201cLockerbie\u201d terrorist bombing trial in the Netherlands, advised the Director-General of UNESCO, provided commentary to BBC, CNN, FOX, CBS and NPR, and is published widely.<\/p>\n

Mark<\/span>\u00a0studied business, theology and government at Georgetown University while on an Army ROTC scholarship, and received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Georgetown Law Center.\u00a0 He holds Certificates in International Law from The Hague Academy of International Law, conducted post-doctorate research at Universiteit Leiden as a NAF-Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands, and completed the World Economic Forum’s executive leadership programs at Oxford and Harvard.<\/p>\n

As a U.S. Army officer, he has been attached to Capitol Hill and the Defense Attach\u00e9 Office at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.<\/p>\n

Knighted by both the Vatican and Ethiopian Crown, and commissioned a Kentucky Colonel,\u00a0Mark<\/span>\u00a0is a Fellow with the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, a member of the Bars of California, the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of the United States, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n

Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and a Senior Peace Fellow by the Public International Law & Policy Group,\u00a0Mark<\/span>\u00a0is founding co-chair of the YGL SDG Advisory Council and has advised numerous boards, including the White House Fellow Foundation, the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art, and the LAPD Leadership Advisory Board.<\/p>\n

He is also executive producer of the documentary films ERASE THE NATION, about the destruction of religious heritage in Ukraine, and LOOT, a story about crime and redemption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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