Marcie Mersky joined ICTJ in January 2011; she is currently a director of the program office. She had previously worked as a consultant for ICTJ and participated as a member of the ICTJ “Managing Truth Commissions” group.
Before coming to ICTJ, Mersky worked at the UN on the Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, as well as on the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), a UN-sponsored hybrid mechanism, with a broad investigative mandate on organized crime and human rights.
Prior to her work at the UN, Mersky directed a program to strengthen accesss to justice in Guatemala; worked with the Historical Clarification Commission, Guatemala’s truth commission, where she led a major field office, coordinated several thematic studies and later served as coordinator of the commission’s final report; and helped design and lead a community-based project of the Catholic Church in Guatemala that worked from the victims’ perspective to document human rights violations during the armed conflict there.
She was born in the U.S., and after earning a masters degree from Harvard University, lived and worked in Latin America for twenty-five years; she now resides in NY.