Vittorio Cave

Anna Cave is an international justice lawyer, atrocity prevention and response expert, and former senior policymaker with two decades of experience across government, academia, civil society, and the private sector. Her work ensures communities affected by atrocities and conflict have a voice in decisions made about them; her scholarship at HHI develops a human-centered, trauma-responsive, data-driven framework for decision- and policy-making.

She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Atrocity Response Coalition for Justice (ARC), a global, survivor-centered consortium — which includes HHI — advancing victim-centered justice and survivor leadership in addressing atrocity crimes, and Director for Civilians in Conflict at Kobo, developing the community-driven data needed for better decision-making.

Anna previously served as Executive Director of Georgetown Law's Center on National Security, co-leading a global project on how military and civilian decision-makers account for cumulative civilian harm in war. Earlier, she held senior roles at the White House’s National Security Council and at the State Department, including Director of African Affairs, Principal Deputy in the Office of Global Criminal Justice, and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security helping establish the Department's Atrocities Prevention Secretariat. She founded the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and began her career as a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell, where she launched the firm's international human rights pro bono practice.  Anna holds a JD from Columbia Law School and a BA from Duke University.