Global security and the rule of law

Mara Rudman is a professor of practice at the Miller Center, where she directs the Ripples of Hope Project, aimed at identifying practical approaches to help democratic leaders resolve key challenges. She previously served as a Miller Center Schlesinger Distinguished Professor and on the 2022 National Defense Strategy Commission. She serves on the Howard University College of Arts and Sciences board of advisors and consults for Democracy Forward. She was previously executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress, and her government positions have included serving as deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs in the Obama and Clinton administrations; deputy envoy for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace at the U.S. Department of State; assistant administrator for the Middle East at the U.S. Agency for International Development; and chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She received an AB from Dartmouth College and a JD from Harvard Law School.

The Honorable James E. Baker is the director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law and a professor at the Syracuse College of Law and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also serves as a judge on the Data Protection Review Court. Baker previously served as a judge and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. He was appointed by President Obama as a member and acting chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board. As a career civil servant, Baker served as legal adviser and deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council; counsel to the president’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board; an attorney in the U.S. Department of State; an aide to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan; and as a Marine Corps infantry officer. He is the author of numerous articles and three books, including The Centaur’s Dilemma: National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution (Brookings 2021). He holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from the Yale Law School.

Yegor Krasnov is a judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine (Commercial Cassation Court). After graduating from National University Odesa Law Academy, Krasnov worked in the legal field while earning a PhD in law. In 2008 he also completed a master’s program in the Institute for Preparation of Professional Judges. Before becoming a judge, Krasnov practiced law and lectured in Odesa National Law Academy from 2005 to 2017. He is an elected member of the Council of Judges of Ukraine, where he chairs the Committee on Compliance with Ethical Standards, Prevention of Corruption, and Conflict of Interest Resolution. Since 2021 Krasnov has also performed duties of the deputy representative for Ukraine at the Consultative Council of European Judges.

Agnes Opoku-Barnieh is a justice of the High Court of Ghana. She has extensive experience adjudicating civil and criminal cases. She holds an LLM in transnational legal practice from St. John’s University School of Law in New York, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2018 and received multiple awards. Opoku-Barnieh also holds an LLB degree and a BA in political science with philosophy from the University of Ghana. She was called to the bar in 2012 after obtaining a barrister-at-law certificate from the Ghana School of Law and practiced as an attorney before joining Ghana’s judiciary in 2016. She is also a chartered tax practitioner and served as a research assistant to the 2010 Constitution Review Commission of Ghana.

Janaína Rodrigues Valle Gomes is a presiding federal judge in the 12th Court of Appeals in São Paulo, Brazil, with a focus on civil, consumer, and privacy law. She also leads the data protection committee for the 3rd Circuit, advising the federal judiciary on data protection compliance. A former São Paulo state prosecutor, she holds an LLM in intellectual property and technology law from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and an MSc in human rights law and an LLB from the University of São Paulo. Rodrigues Valle Gomes is also certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. As a professor of privacy law, she has trained law clerks and novice judges and has published on artificial intelligence and privacy governance.