Julian Simcock

Julian Simcock is a Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University. He served in multiple roles on the White House National Security Council in the Biden Administration, including Director for Global Criminal Justice and interim head of the Multilateral Affairs and Democracy and Human Rights Directorates. He helped shape and execute the U.S. response at the United Nations to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

Earlier, he was Deputy Legal Adviser to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and a lawyer at the Department of State, where he was a U.S. negotiator in the Sudan and South Sudan ceasefire talks.

He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School, M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School, M. Phil. from the University of Cape Town, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and B.S. from Babson College. After law school, he clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic and The Stanford Law Review.