Sarah Sewall

Who is Sarah Sewall?

Sarah Sewall is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School and a member of the Secretary of Defense's Defense Policy Board. She served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance during the Clinton administration and served on President Obama's national security and foreign policy transition team. Sewall was formerly the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard.

Sewall graduated from Harvard College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. During the Clinton Administration, Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Assistance. From 1987-1993, she served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as Associate Director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the lead author of MARO Mass Atrocity Response Operations: A Military Planning Handbook, and co-author of Parameters of Partnership: Civil-Military relations in the 21st Century. She was also lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law and has written widely on U.S. foreign policy, national security, and military intervention.