Andrew C. Mann

Andrew (Drew) Mann, J.D., is a Senior Peace Fellow and Strategic Advisor for the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG).  Drew served as the Senior Legal Advisor for the Sri Lanka Project, which developed training modules to enhance the professionalism of human rights documenters.  He has also provided training on documentation and international human rights standards to participants in the South Sudan Human Rights Documentation Initiative.  In 2019, he conducted a security and policy assessment of the PILPG Kenya Office.  Furthermore, Drew served as the Senior Legal Advisor for the 2018 Bangladesh/Rohingya Documentation project investigating atrocities committed against the Rohingya. 

In over 35 years of government service, primarily with the State Department, Drew worked under eight Presidents with assignments in nine countries and the United States and with the UN, retiring as a Senior Foreign Service Officer in 2017.  As a political officer, he spent much of his career in countries transitioning from conflict, such as Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan (Darfur), and Bosnia. 

During his Foreign Service career, Drew used his legal experience while on detail to the Office of European Affairs, Legal Adviser’s Office at the U.S. State Department.  He was subsequently seconded as an Expert-on-Mission to the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 1994.  While in Afghanistan in 2007, he served as the Deputy Coordinator in the Rule of Law Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.     

As a Pearson Fellow in 1996, Drew taught courses in human rights and international law at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.  He later attended The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, as a State Department Fellow.  In 2013, Drew was honored to teach diplomacy and the interagency at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College as the Commandant’s Distinguished Chair of Diplomacy.  Finally, he served as the State Department’s Diplomat in Residence for the North Central region at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.

In 1994, the American Foreign Service Association presented the William R. Rivkin Award for constructive dissent to Drew and his colleagues working on Yugoslav issues for protesting U.S. policy towards Bosnia in 1992-93.

A cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University and the University of Idaho College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review, Drew clerked for the Hon. Paul H. Roney, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth/Eleventh Circuit.  He practiced law at the Tennessee Valley Authority and with Lane Powell Moss & Miller in Seattle before joining the Foreign Service in 1985.  He has been a member of the Tennessee, Florida, Washington, and Alaska State Bars.