SJAC is a Syrian-led organization made up of 50+ team members around the globe. While our team of lawyers, human rights activists, and IT experts is majority Syrian, many of our team members cannot be publicly associated with the organization, as it may put themselves, their families, or the objectivity of their work at risk. The staff listed below live in both the United States and Europe and are able to respond to questions or requests for information.


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Board of Directors

The SJAC Board of Directors establishes organisational policies and guides institutional strategy. Members include:

Jill Miller

Director, Center for Applied Learning and Impact, IREX

Jill Miller is an international development professional with 18 years of progressive experience in democracy and governance, education, gender and youth. In her current capacity leading the Center for Applied Learning and Impact at the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Jill heads a team that develops cutting-edge new program approaches, fosters learning across the IREX portfolio and beyond, and assesses IREX’s impact. Jill received her master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with a concentration in Social Change and Development and her bachelor’s degree from Seattle University in Political Science and Economics.

Erica Razook

Director, Titania Returns, LLC

Erica Razook sits on SJAC’s Board of Directors and is a Syrian-Lebanese American anti-corruption lawyer and certified fraud examiner living in New York. She participated in the 2014 Arab Forum on Asset Recovery and supported civil society efforts to repatriate stolen assets to Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, and Ukraine in her former role at the Open Society Foundations, including coordination of the civil society-led event on the topic at the 2015 UN Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa. Erica is the Treasurer of the Board of Directors of SJAC.

Daniel Serwer

Academic Director of Conflict Management , Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Daniel is a Professor of the Practice of Conflict Management, director of the Conflict Management Program and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Serwer is also a research scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. Serwer served as a minister-counselor with the U.S. Department of State. He was deputy chief of mission and charge’ d’affaires at US Embassy Rome from 1990 to 1993 and from 1994 to 1996, special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation. During this posting, Serwer mediated between the Croats and Muslims and was the negotiator who brokered the first agreement reached at the Dayton peace talks. Serwer is the author of Righting the Balance: How You Can Help Protect America (Potomac, 2013). Serwer holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Princeton University, an M.S. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Haverford College.

Mark Smith

Director for Government Affairs, Clorox Company

Mark Smith is the Director for Government Affairs at the International, Glad and BRITA for the Clorox Company. He leads the company’s government affairs strategy in the over 110 markets outside of the U.S. where Clorox does business as well as the global business for the Glad and BRITA brands. Prior to joining Clorox, Mark was President and Founder of Claren Power, a waste-to-energy developer focused on maximizing the electrical energy output of sugar mills in Brazil. Before embarking on this entrepreneurial venture, Mark served for 11 years as the Managing Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce where he led successful industry coalitions that helped pass the CAFTA, Chile and Peru-U.S. Free Trade Agreements. At the Chamber, Mark also served as the Executive Vice President of the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, an organization representing the largest Fortune 500 investors in Brazil. Prior to his stint at the Chamber, Mark worked as a trade analyst at the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, focusing on promoting Brazilian software and manufactured goods exports to the U.S. He holds a BA in Government from the College of William & Mary and a MBA from Georgetown.

Clint Williamson

Distinguished professor of practice, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Williamson also serves as Senior Director for Global Rule of Law, Governance and National Security at the McCain Institute for International Leadership at ASU. From 2011-2014, he served as Lead Prosecutor for the European Union Special Investigative Task Force. Prior to that role, Williamson was the third United States Ambassador for War Crimes Issues, serving from 2006 to 2009. Before the ambassadorship, from 1994-2001, he worked as a Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, where he supervised investigations and field operations in the Balkans, compiled indictments, and prosecuted cases at trial.