Mark Quarterman

I am responsible for helping to formulate the Enough Project’s policy prescriptions to end genocide and crimes against humanity and oversees the production of publications.

Prior to joining the Enough Project, I was a senior adviser and director of the Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where I focused on effective multilateral responses to global issues. I also served at the United Nations in a number of capacities for nearly 12 years. Most recently, I was chief of staff of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan. At UN Headquarters, I served as special assistant (chief of staff) to the UN under secretary general for legal affairs and legal counsel; special assistant to the assistant secretary general for political affairs; and in other capacities in the UN Office of Legal Affairs and Department of Political Affairs. In the field, I served in Jerusalem and Gaza as chief of staff to the UN special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, and in East Timor and Indonesia as political adviser to the special representative for the East Timor Popular Consultation.

Before joining the United Nations, I was a staff member of the Africa Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives; a program officer at the Ford Foundation for South Africa and Namibia; and an associate attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Earlier in my career he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone.

I hold a law degree from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in public affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School, and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University.