About Us

President

Tim Schnabel

From 2019 to 2025, Tim served as the Executive Director of the Uniform Law Commission, an organization formed by the governments of all 50 states to develop and seek enactment of model state legislation. He also spent a decade at the U.S. Department of State, where he served as the lead negotiator for several multilateral treaties and other instruments aimed at legal harmonization, including the Singapore Mediation Convention. He practiced law in the National Security group at WilmerHale and clerked for the Hon. Janice Rogers Brown on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Managing Director, Legal and AI Policy

Joe Khawam

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From 2012 to 2025, Joe was an attorney at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked on multilateral law reform issues as well as regulatory matters such as export controls and sanctions. He represented the U.S. government as head of delegation in several private international law negotiations at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. He also advised policy officials on defense trade controls, economic sanctions, and export controls, and served as in-house counsel on a range of litigation matters. Previously, he practiced law in WilmerHale’s Litigation Department, focusing on international arbitration and government investigations. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School.