Dr Charlotte Ku

Dr Charlotte Ku served as the Centre’s Acting Director from October 2006 to February 2007.

Before coming to Cambridge, Charlotte completed a 12-year term as Executive Director and Executive Vice-President of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), where, among many other things, she coordinated a multi-million annual budget and led many successful development and sponsorship projects. While at ASIL, she also oversaw the development of the highly visible ASIL website and of outreach programs to the US judiciary and the media.

In conjunction with the Academic Council on the United Nations System, Charlotte conducted annual workshops on global governance for academics, advocates, and government officials. She has also been a visiting professor at the John Hopkins University and an assistant professor in government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia. Charlotte has served on a number of management and editorial boards, including the Academic Council on the United Nations System and International Legal Materials, and has herself published nearly 40 academic papers.

Charlotte’s term as Acting Director of the Centre ended in February 2007, when she took up the leadership of the University of Illinois College of Law’s Graduate and International Studies Programme.