Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing
Biography:
Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing writes and lectures in the area of global governance, peace, and international security. Prior to her current work as founding director of the Center for Peace and Global Governance, Ms. Ma'ani Ewing served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Legal Advisor's Office of the U.S. State Department. Born in East Africa and raised there and in the Middle East, she has also lived in the United Kingdom, where she earned an LLM in International Law and European Union Law at Cambridge University and qualified as a barrister-at-law of England and Wales. She subsequently moved to the United States and qualified as an attorney-at-law there, practiced law at respected law firms in Washington, D.C., including her own, and taught as an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University's law school. Ms. Ma'ani Ewing has written several books and she maintains a blog about principled solutions to current global issues at www.colllective-security.org.