PSVF Fellow: Sandy Alkoutami (J.D. ’24)

International Committee of the Red Cross

Geneva, Switzerland

Sandy Alkoutami will spend her fellowship year with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). At the ICRC’s Legal Division, she will support the organization’s researching, drafting, and finalizing of the Commentaries on the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Additional Protocol I, international treaties that regulate the conduct of armed conflict and establish protections for civilians in international armed conflicts.

While a student at Harvard Law School, Sandy served as a research assistant for the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict and as student attorney at the International Human Rights Clinic. She also worked as an extern with the Department of Treasury’s Office of International Affairs and the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser.

During her summers, she interned with the Department of Justice’s Office of Foreign Litigation in Washington, D.C., Morrison Foerster in Washington, D.C., and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Tunis, Tunisia.

Prior to law school, Sandy served as a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University, where she earned her M.M.Sc. in Global Affairs. Before her Schwarzman year, Sandy was a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and a Fulbright Fellow in Amman, Jordan. She earned her B.A. in Public Policy and Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.