John D. Ciorciari

1400 20^th Street NW, Apartment 708, Washington, DC 20036 USA

Tel: (202) 431-5090 / Email: john_ciorciari@post.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

Oxford University – St. Antony's College (Doctoral candidate, 2002-present)

– Christ Church (M.Phil., 2002)

Doctoral candidate focusing on the alignment politics of the developing world.

Case study on Southeast Asian relations since 1975. (Supervisor: Yuen Foong Khong.)

M.Phil. thesis on ASEAN regional security strategies in the post-Cold War era.

Harvard Law School (J.D. cum laude, 1998)

Academic focus on international trade law, financial law & comparative law.
Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Law Journal.
Co-Chair, 1998 Harvard Int’l Law Society Delegation to Brussels, Geneva and The Hague.

Harvard College (A.B. cum laude, 1995)

Three-year Honors degree in Biochemical Sciences; graduate-level study of molecular immunology and signal transduction; laboratory research in eukaryotic genetics.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

B.A. Thesis Advisor, Hertford College (Oxford), U.S. Foreign Policy, 2003-04.
Tutor, St. Peter's College (Oxford), U.S. Foreign Policy, Spring 2003.
Tutor, The Queen's College (Oxford), International Relations of the Cold War Era, 2002-03.
Tutor, St. Edmund's College (Oxford), International Relations of the Cold War Era, 2002-03.
Tutor, Department of Oriental Studies (Oxford), Middle Eastern Politics, Spring 2003.
Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Department of Politics and International Relations (Oxford), Middle Eastern Politics, 2002-03.
Instructor, Christ Church (Oxford), International Relations in the Post-Cold War Era, Winter 2002.
Teaching Assistant, Columbia Law School, Political Asylum Workshop, 1999 and 2000.

WORK & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

U.S. Department of the Treasury (April 2004-present)

Senior Advisor to the Under and Assistant Secretaries for International Affairs.

· Supporting the Under and Assistant Secretaries in the formulation of numerous aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the areas of development policy, international trade & investment, international banking and securities markets, and economic reconstruction.

· Managing various aspects of the Office of International Affairs (nearly 200 employees).

· Coordination with the National Security Council, State Department, foreign finance ministries, and others in policy formulation, articulation, and execution.

Documentation Center of Cambodia (1999-present)

· Pro bono Legal & Research Advisor. Employed full-time in Phnom Penh during 1999 and periodically thereafter.

· Prepared materials for the prosecution of former high-ranking Khmer Rouge officials alleged to have perpetrated genocide, war crimes, torture and other crimes against humanity (1999-2000).

· Devised a fact-finding project funded by the UK and Dutch governments to uncover abuses perpetrated during the Democratic Kampuchea period (2001-present).

Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society (September 2003-present)

Vice President and Director of the Asia Program, producing research and fostering dialogue on U.S. policy in Asia.
Part of a think-tank comprising young scholars interested in contemporary U.S. foreign policy.

Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, Singapore (Summer 2003, Spring 2004)

Visiting Research Fellow examining alignment politics in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
Featured as an analyst of the Middle East peace process on Focus, a weekly news program by Media Corp Singapore (Channel 8), Sept. 20, 2003. Interviewed for Today newspaper (Singapore) on the Iraq War and in numerous Cambodian newspapers on Cambodian politics.

Davis Polk & Wardwell (Summer 1997; 1998-2000)

· Associate in the Financial Institutions and Capital Markets groups, New York & London.

· Provided legal advice on large projects involving mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and other major domestic and international financial transactions.

· Advised U.S. companies in trade disputes involving Cuba and Mexico.

· Teaching Assistant, Columbia Law School Asylum Workshop, 1999 and 2000.

· Successful pro bono counsel to Nigerian, Tibetan and Somali nationals in applications for political asylum.

· Pro bono representation of a hearing-impaired woman alleging spousal abuse.

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto (Summer 1996)

· Summer Associate, focusing on international trade law and intellectual property.

· Drafted advisory memoranda, primarily to pharmaceutical and biotech companies.

· Pro bono work at the Bronx Psychiatric Center.

The Honorable Christopher Shays, M.C. (Summer 1994)

· Congressional internship on Capitol Hill.

· Attended hearings, drafted issue language, and corresponded with constituents.

National Institutes of Health (Summer 1993)

· Biophysics contract to study the efficacy of neural auditory prosthetics at EIC Laboratories, Inc.

· Research techniques used included cyclic voltammetry and proton spectroscopy.

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

· “A Half-Way Challenge to Malaysia’s Internal Security Act,” Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, vol. 3 (Winter 2003).

· “Hostage to a Junta: EU Policy toward Southeast Asia,” Journal of European Affairs, vol. 1 (July 2003).

· “A Prospective Enlargement of the Roles of the Bretton Woods Financial Institutions in International Peace Operations,” Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 22 (1998).

· “The Lawful Scope of Human Rights Criteria in World Bank Credit Decisions: An Analysis of the IBRD and IDA Articles of Agreement,” Cornell International Law Journal (September 2000).

Book Chapters

· “Korean Security Dilemmas: ASEAN’s Policies and Perspective,” in Hazel Smith, Gary Samore and Adam Ward, eds., Reconstituting Korean Security (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, forthcoming 2005).

· “‘Auto-Genocide’ and the Cambodian Reign of Terror,” in Dominick Schaller and Rupen Boydjian, eds., Contributions to Genocide Studies (Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2004).

· “Documenting the Crimes of Democratic Kampuchea,” in Awaiting Justice: Essays on Accountability in Cambodia, Jason Abrams, Beth Van Schaack, and Jaya Ramji, eds. (New York: Mellen Press, 2005).

· “Mapping the Killing Fields: GIS Technology in the Historical Reconstruction of the Cambodian Holocaust,” in Rujaya Abhakorn & Brian Zottoli, eds., Charting Time and Space: Digital Histories of Southeast Asia (forthcoming 2005).

Articles in Searching for the Truth, a Cambodian academic magazine in English & Khmer

“The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Now, Never or Somewhere in Between?” Searching for the Truth (SFT), Issue 40 (Apr. 2003).
“Defrocking the Monks: The Crime of Religious Persecution,” Issue 32 (Aug. 2002).
“Great-Power Posturing and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal,” Issue 32 (Aug. 2002).
“Documents as Evidence Against Surviving KR Leaders,” Issues 19-24 (May-Dec. 2001).
“Rules of Evidence in the Khmer Rouge Trials: The Treatment of Hearsay and Confessions,” Issue 3 (Mar. 2000).
“Categorizing the Crimes of the CPK: Nullem Crimen Sine Lege and the Legal Definition of Genocide,” Issue 2 (Feb. 2000).
“The Doctrine of Command Responsibility and the DK Regime,” Issue 1 (Jan. 2000).

Newspaper Articles

“China’s Influence in Cambodia is Growing,” The Cambodia Daily, Mar. 18, 2004.
“Thaksin’s Chance for Regional Leadership,” The Straits Times (Singapore), Mar. 11, 2004.
“Family Fears for the Former Tuol Sleng Prison Chief,” (w/K. Eng), Cambodia Daily, July 31, 2003.
“Authority for DCC Research,” Cambodia Daily, June 7, 2003.
“The Great Powers and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal,” Cambodia Daily, April 30, 2003.
“Listen to the Voice of the People,” The Phnom Penh Post, Dec. 10, 1999.
“International KR Tribunal Would Be Something to Bank On,” The Cambodia Daily, Sept. 29, 1999.
“Cooperation of All Needed for Trial," The Bangkok Post, Nov. 10, 1999

Conference & Seminar Papers Delivered

“Saudi-U.S. Alignment after the Six-Day War,” Conference organized by the Office of the Historian, U.S. State Department, Jan. 13, 2004.
“Transitional Political Regimes and the Incentives for Narrow Retribution,” Danish Institute for International Studies, Dec. 15, 2003.
“Mapping the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields,” Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conference, Bangkok, Nov 9, 2003.
“Pol Pot’s ‘Paranoid’ Defense Policy: Lessons for North Korea?” Seminar Series, Institute of Defence & Strategic Studies, Singapore, Oct. 1, 2003.
“Understanding Alliances in Southeast Asia,” Special Seminar, History Department, University of Malaya, Sept. 26, 2003.
“Tigers, Dragons, and Crocodiles: Alliances in Indochina after the Fall of Saigon,” St. Antony’s College, Graduate Seminar Series, June 16, 2003.
“Realpolitik and International Law,” Special Seminar Series, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, October 1999.

TERM STUDY OVERSEAS

Université de Paris IV—La Sorbonne (August 2000) – Advanced-level immersion course in French language. Highest grade received in the class.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (July 2000) – Intensive seminar on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict (ungraded).
Centro de Lenguas y Intercambio Cultural, Sevilla (June 2000) – Immersion course in Spanish language. Grade of A received.
College International de Cannes (September 1998) – Immersion course in French language. Grade of A received.
Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence (August 1998) – Study of Italian language and Baroque art history. 4.0 GPA.
University of Vienna (August 1997) – Immersion course in German. Prize for graduation at the top of the class.
Southeast Asia Union College, Singapore (Summer 1995) – Courses in Mandarin, international business and Southeast Asian history. 4.0 GPA.
Saitama Sakae & Hanasaki Tokuharu Schools, Japan (Summer 1990) – Spokesman for U.S.-Japan exchange program. Studied Japanese language and history. Finished at top of the class.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

· Proficient French; conversational Italian and Spanish.

· Elementary study of German, Japanese, Khmer, Mandarin, and Malay.

HONORS & AWARDS

· Wai Seng Senior Research Scholarship (2002-04)

· Dr. Chun-tu Hsueh Research Award (2003)

· Clarendon Fund Scholarship (2002-03)

· Harvard Club (UK) Scholarship (2001-02)

· Christ Church American Friends Scholarship (2001-02)

· Fulbright Scholarship to the U.K. (2000-01)

· Columbia University Lawrence A. Wien Prize for social responsibility (group award recipient for political asylum advocacy, 1999)

· Harvard College Scholar (1993-95)

· John Harvard Scholar (1993)

· National Merit Scholar; AP Scholar with Distinction; Class Valedictorian; National Jesuit Award for Excellence; Board of Realtors Scholarship; UNICO Italian-American Scholarship; Disney Scholar-Athlete Award ; numerous other awards (1992)