Fireside Chat with Rachel Alpert, Chief Counsel, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Join the Law & International Development Society (LIDS) and the National Security & Law Association (NSLA) in a casual fireside chat with Rachel Alpert. This event will feature a brief introduction and the time for Q&A. This event is off the record. Light snacks and refreshments will be available.

Rachel Alpert is Chief Counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In this capacity, she leads the team of attorneys who provide legal advice and guidance to OFAC in the administration and enforcement of U.S. economic and trade sanctions. Rachel previously worked as a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where she co-chaired the National Security, Sanctions, & Export Control and the Human Rights & Global Strategy practice groups. In that role, she advised domestic and international clients on a range of issues, including export controls and sanctions compliance, business and human rights, supply chain accountability, and national security reviews by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). Rachel also served for seven years as an Attorney-Adviser in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where she worked on legal issues affecting U.S. relations with Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean and advised on the implementation of approximately $2 billion in U.S. foreign assistance resources to prevent trafficking in persons, combat transnational crime, promote democracy, and provide urgent humanitarian assistance throughout the world.

Rachel holds a JD from Harvard Law School, an MA in Middle Eastern History from Tel Aviv University, and a BA in International Studies and Political Science from Yale University. She has taught International Law as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School and spent a year in Damascus, Syria as a Frederick Sheldon Fellow, researching and writing about the Syrian legal framework for the international response to the Iraqi refugee crisis.