Alex Whiting
Commissioner
Alex Whiting is Head of Investigations at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office. Prior to that, Mr. Whiting was a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, where he lectured on domestic and international criminal prosecution issues.
Previously, he practiced for eighteen years as a US and international prosecutor. Between 2010 and 2013, Mr. Whiting worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court where he served first as the Investigations Coordinator, and then as Prosecutions Coordinator, overseeing all of the Office’s ongoing prosecutions.
Before joining the ICC, Mr. Whiting taught for more than three years as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, again with a focus on prosecution subjects. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Trial Attorney and then a Senior Trial Attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. Prior to working at the ICTY, Mr. Whiting was a US federal prosecutor for ten years, first with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in Washington, DC, and then with the Office of the US Attorney in Boston, where he focused on organised crime and corruption cases.