Charles Brown
Former President and CEO of Citizens for Global Solutions

• What is the ICC? Audio Video
• Does the ICC respect and promote American values? Audio Video
• What does the ICC represent? Audio Video
• How will participation in the ICC prevent double standards? Audio Video
• Why should the U.S. participate in the ICC? Audio Video
• Why should the U.S. support the ICC? Audio Video

Biography

Mr. Brown was the President and CEO of Citizens for Global Solutions and the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund. From 2001 to 2004, he was Deputy Executive Director at Amnesty International USA. From 1999-2001, he served as Chief of Staff for Assistant Secretary Harold Hongju Koh in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor in the Department of State, and as Director of the Bureau’s Office of Strategic Planning and External Affairs. In 1998-99, he was the Bureau’s Senior Advisor on Public Affairs. During his tenure at State, he also served as spokesperson for U.S. Government delegations to the UN Conference on the establishment of an International Criminal Court, the UN Commission on Human Rights, and the Warsaw Ministerial of the Community of Democracies. From 1988-1998 he worked at Freedom House in a variety of positions, ultimately as Director of Program Development. He is co-author of The Politics of Psychiatry in Revolutionary Cuba and co-editor of Judges and Journalists in Transitional Democracies.