Sara Segneri

Sara Segneri provides legal advisory and consulting for individuals, corporations, governments, and non-governmental associations. Her areas of focus include human rights, foreign affairs, sanctions, war crimes, cross border finance, national security, business and human rights due diligence, and anti-corruption.

Sara presently serves as the Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee. From 2019-2022, Sara served as the Middle East and North Africa Region liaison officer. Sara is a certified financial crime specialist and certified global sanctions specialist.

Sara has published numerous articles in recent years on international law, sanctions, terrorism, human trafficking and free speech. Sara frequently speaks at international legal conferences and conducts trainings for legal professionals, corporations, financial institutions, government officials, military, and law enforcement regarding investigating and prosecuting war crimes, human rights, sanctions, compliance with international criminal law, national security, and counterterrorism, including efforts in Ukraine, Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, and the Gulf Region. Her TEDx, “Women Are Not Weapons of War,” is frequently used in trainings specifically focused on conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking. In 2024, Sara was a co-author of the Defense Counsel Handbook, a manual for Ukrainian defense lawyers representing Russians and others accused of war crimes in Ukrainian court.

Sara was a founding member of the Dulles Justice Coalition, an organization of lawyers quickly mobilized to provide legal assistance in response to the Muslim Ban. Most recently, Sara was named as a senior board member for the Blue Tulip Human Rights Group and selected as an expert fellow for the Forum on the Arms Trade.

Sara holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science and economics, a Juris Doctorate with a focus on litigation and international law, an LLM with high honors in international human rights law from Northwestern Law School and a Master’s Degree with Merit in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London School of War and Security Studies.