Mark West is an attorney and anthropologist with more than 20 years of experience in rule of law development worldwide, with particular expertise on Southeast Asia. He has collaborated with jurists, civil society groups, and government agencies across Central and Eastern Europe and much of Asia, and currently leads Landesa’s Southeast Asia Program. The program includes law and policy work with governments and CSOs in the ASEAN region, including Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Dr. West lived in Cambodia for four years working with the USAID Program on Rights and Justice, whose core activity areas concerned land rights and access to justice, and where he served as the principal liaison to the Ministry of Justice for USAID. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and a JD from the University of Washington.
