About me
D. Wes Rist is an Atrocity Prevention Policy Advisor in the Bureau of Conflict & Stabilization Operations (CSO) at the U.S. Department of State. He previously served as the Deputy Executive Director and Director of Education and Research at the American Society of International Law (ASIL). He was a member of the Prevention and Protection Working Group (PPWG), which advised the U.S. Government on genocide and atrocities prevention issues, and served as a co-chair of the PPWG Elie Wiesel Act Implementation Committee. Wes was the Assistant Director of the Center for International Legal Education and professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and as a lecturer in international Law at UWE Bristol Law School. He holds a JD and an LL.M. (with distinction) in International Human Rights Law.
