Professor John Cerone holds faculty appointments in International Law at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, American University Washington College of Law, and the University of London. He has been awarded fellowships at the Nobel Institute (Oslo), the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Lund). He is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL) and has served on a number of expert groups for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights. As a practicing international lawyer, he has worked for a number of international organizations, including the UN, the OSCE, the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the International Crisis Group, and has served as a legal adviser to various international criminal tribunals. He also has extensive field experience in conflict and post-conflict environments, including in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor.
During this trip, he will address gender-based discrimination and human rights challenges throughout Egypt and the wider MENA region, alongside the international law dimensions of the Nile dispute.