Jonathan Crock is a program officer in the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Center for Governance, Law and Society. He works on the Justice and Security Dialogue, governance, constitution making and national dialogue programs for the Rule of Law Center.
Crock has over 15 years of experience working in rule of law, democratic governance, human rights law and foreign policy. His previous work experience includes strengthening the rule of law globally in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of War Crimes Issues, directing transitional democracy and human rights programs at the International Republican Institute, conducting international law research in the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and working on business and human rights issues at New York University School of Law’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. He has worked across the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He previously served at the U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Department of the Treasury, French Embassy to the United States, U.S. Embassy Warsaw and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Crock is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Law, conducting research on the right to democracy in international law under the supervision of Professor William Schabas at Leiden University’s Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, The Hague, Netherlands. He has a particular research interest in the use of sortition and other forms of direct democracy worldwide. He holds a master’s degree in international human rights law from the University of Oxford.