Mark Wolf

Biography

The Chair of Integrity Initiatives International, Mark L. Wolf, is a Senior United States District Judge, and the former Chief Judge, of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to his appointment in 1985, Judge Wolf served as a Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States after Watergate and as the chief federal public corruption prosecutor in Massachusetts. In a 2011 editorial, The New York Times commended Judge Wolf's for exposing the corrupt relationship between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its informant James "Whitey" Bulger.

A graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Law School, Judge Wolf is an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches a seminar on Combatting Corruption Internationally, and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights.

In 2014, Judge Wolf published articles two advocating the creation of an International Anti-Corruption Court to combat grand corruption -- the abuse of public office for private gain by a nation's leaders. The proposal has gained the support of, among others, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Transparency International, Human Rights Watch, leading international prosecutors, and courageous young people throughout the world. In 2016, Judge Wolf, Justice Richard Goldstone of South Africa, and other colleagues created Integrity Initiatives International to advocate for the creation of the International Anti-Corruption Court, to develop and strengthen other measures to combat grand corruption, and to forge a network of young people dedicated to combatting