Fiona McKay
Director, International Justice Program
Joined the Lawyers Committee in 2002

As the Director of the Lawyers Committee’s International Justice Program, Fiona McKay works to strengthen the emerging system of international justice, focusing in particular on ensuring that the International Criminal Court becomes a sound institution. Under Fiona’s direction, the International Justice program also works to increase the capacity of national legal systems to prosecute international crimes and to cooperate with international criminal tribunals. A major component of Fiona’s work is increasing support within the United States for international justice mechanisms.

Prior to joining the Lawyers Committee, Fiona served as Deputy Director of the Kurdish Human Rights Project in London. Before that, she worked as Legal Officer at Redress, a London-based NGO that works to promote torture survivors’ right to reparation. At Redress, she developed an international justice program that included a highly successful project advocating the rights of victims within the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, and promoting the concept of universal jurisdiction (including carrying out research and representing victims of human rights violations in actual cases). Fiona also worked for a number of years in the Middle East, including directing a legal aid center in Jerusalem.

Fiona holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Modern History and Modern Languages from Oxford University (1983) and an L.L.M. from the London School of Economics (1996).