About the CCCA

The CCCA is a Stichting (Foundation) based in The Hague, The Netherlands (KvK 70909474).

The CCCA's Board of Directors is composed of:

• Reinhold Gallmetzer,  Appeals Counsel at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (chairperson)
• Davyth Stewart, INTERPOL, Co-ordinator of Natural Resources and Environmental Security
• Alex Whiting, Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, former prosecution and investigation coordinator at International Criminal Court, and US federal prosecutor

The CCCA's Advisory Board includes:

• Katrina Gustafson, prosecutor at UN war crimes tribunal
• Mark Harmond, former US environmental crimes prosecutor and UN war crimes prosecutor;
• Keith Hiatt, Benetech, Vice President, Human Rights Program
• Michelle Jarvis, Deputy Head of the International, Impartial, and Independent UN Mechanism for Syria, and former Deputy to the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• Peter Kremer, former Canadian federal prosecutor and UN war crimes prosecutor
• Sergio Tirró, Europol, Project Manager AP EnviCrime
• Roel Willekens, Chief Superintendant Netherlands Police and former Chairperson of European EnviCrimeNet

The CCCA has been endorsed by, and cooperates with, INTERPOL, Europol, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Environmental Crimes Network. The CCCA further partners with the Commission for International Justice and Accountability to manage and implement projects; the Human Rights Center - UC Berkeley School of Law, and the Human Rights Centre - Essex University to support the CCCA's open source investigation; the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to produce scientific evidence and analysis; Benetech, a Silicon Valley-based non-profit technology company, to develop and implement secure and efficient data solutions for the CCCA; and the European Climate Foundation, to fundraise.

The CCCA is independent, in the sense that it decides autonomously on which areas and specific fact patterns to focus. Additionally, the CCCA controls its analysis and information sharing.