Jelena Pejic is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point and was the Institute’s Lieber Scholar for 2023. She is a Member of the Board of Editors at Just Security and also serves on the Board of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights. She is a former Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva, where she worked for over twenty years. She is acknowledged to be a leading authority in her fields and has written and presented extensively on various issues of IHL, human rights and criminal law. In her earlier career she was a Senior Program Coordinator in the New York office of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), a lecturer in international law and international relations at Belgrade University Law School and a journalist. She holds an LLM degree from Columbia University Law School in New York, and a law degree from Belgrade University Law School.