Ms. April Baskin joined The World Justice Project in July 2010. Between September 2008 and June 2010, as a Schusterman Insight Fellow through the Center for Leadership Initiatives and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, Ms. Baskin worked at Maryland Hillel, BBYO, Inc., and Moment Magazine. She is also a graduate of the Jeremiah Fellowship with Jews United for Justice, a nine-month Jewish social change and community organizing training program. In 2007, Ms. Baskin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University, having majored in sociology with concentrations in community health and social inequality. She was recognized with high honors for her senior honors thesis about Jews of Color and continues to present her research at Jewish conferences and retreats around the country.

While at Tufts, Ms. Baskin interned at a variety of educational and community-based organizations, including the Chinese Progressive Association of Boston and Chabad of Sacramento. She further broadened her experience in community organizing through interfaith collaboration as an Americorps fellow for an after-school program affiliated with the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston. After graduating, Ms. Baskin worked as a research assistant at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Juan Carlos Botero is The World Justice Project's Interim Executive Director and Director of the Rule of Law Index, where he has led the development of an innovative quantitative tool to measure countries’ adherence to the rule of law worldwide. Mr. Botero’s previous experience include service as Chief International Legal Counsel of the Colombian Ministry of Commerce; Deputy-Chief Negotiator of the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement; Consultant for the World Bank; Associate Researcher at Yale University; and Judicial Clerk at the Colombian Constitutional Court. He has taught legal theory and comparative law at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia and Universidad Privada Boliviana in Bolivia. His academic publications focus on the areas of rule of law, access to justice, labor regulation, and child labor. Mr. Botero is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Rule of Law 2011.

A national of Colombia, Mr. Botero holds a law degree from Universidad de los Andes and a Master of Laws from Harvard University. He is a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Ted Carroll joined The World Justice Project in June 2010. Currently, he is pursuing a Masters Degree at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Previously, Mr. Carroll taught high school Spanish in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Carroll is a native of Minneapolis, MN, and received a B.A. in Spanish and International Relations from Coe College, and a M.Ed. from Loyola University Chicago.

Ms. Nabiha Chowdhury joined The World Justice Project in May 2010. Prior to working at the WJP, she served as a Project Executive at Unitrend Marketing in Bangladesh. Previously, she was the Communications Officer of the International Red Cross Headquarters in Bangladesh, where she reported on humanitarian activities to media agencies all over the world.

A national of Bangladesh, Ms. Chowdhury has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto, Canada and is currently pursuing graduate studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, DC.

Ms. Ana Victoria Cruz joined The World Justice Project in July 2010. Before joining the WJP, Ms. Cruz worked at the British Consulate-General in Chicago, Illinois and the Illinois Governor’s Office in its Office of New Americans. Previously, she worked in Congress in the Office of the Honorable Luis V. Gutiérrez in the United States House of Representatives. Ms. Cruz is also an accomplished photographer who grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Ms. Cruz graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with departmental honors in International Studies and History. Before completing her degree, Ms. Cruz also studied at the John Felice Rome Center in Italy and the Les Aspin Center for Government in Washington, DC.

Mr. Alex Davis joined The World Justice Project in January 2012. Before joining the WJP, Mr. Davis was a Research Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Previously, he worked as an editor and translator in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Mr. Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in International Affairs and Art History from George Washington University. Before completing his degree, Mr. Davis interned at the U.S. Department of State and studied abroad in Paris, France.

Ms. Dorothy Garcia joined The World Justice Project in June 2010. Prior to joining the WJP, Ms. Garcia was an international trade analyst for a private firm in Washington, DC and a research assistant and coordinator for an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)-sponsored education benchmarking initiative.

A national of the Philippines, she received her Masters degree in International Development from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ms. Sophie Gebreselassie joined The World Justice Project in April 2010. Prior to the WJP, Ms. Gebreselassie supported the communications efforts of various non-profit organizations at GMMB, a strategic communications and advocacy firm. Before that, she worked with the AIDS Resource Center of Ethiopia to develop a website to transmit health-related messages to youth. Ms. Gebreselassie has also worked on several communications and advocacy projects related to health and development in Ethiopia.

Ms. Gebreselassie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from Brown University.

Mr. Dwight Gee joined The World Justice Project as its Executive Vice President, Planning and Development in August 2011. He comes to the position with more than 20 years of domestic experience and 9 years of international experience in fundraising, leadership and organizational development, communications, and training. Prior to joining the WJP, he was Executive Vice President of ArtsFund, based in Seattle, Washington, USA, where, in addition to fundraising, he oversaw major research projects on cultural issues, guided advocacy efforts at the local, state, and national level and developed and conducted nonprofit leadership training programs.

Mr. Gee is a long-time member and chair of the visiting committee of Seattle University’s Masters in Nonprofit Leadership Program. He also served two terms as board president of FareStart, a Seattle-based NGO training homeless people to serve in the food service industry. In 2002, as a consultant to the George Soros Open Society Foundations, he helped establish an arts council in Mongolia. As a volunteer, he helped create and currently serves as president of a US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit to support Mongolian culture. Mr. Gee also serves on the board of the Laucks Foundation. He is a guest lecturer at Seattle University and the University of Washington on fundraising and nonprofit management, and also provides training sessions to boards of many nongovernmental organizations on fundraising, governance, and nonprofit management and leadership.

A Native of Nebraska, Mr. Gee holds a Bachelors of Arts in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Mr. Joel Martinez is a Program Manager for The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index. Prior to joining the WJP, Mr. Martinez worked with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in its enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, focusing on outreach to low income communities. Mr. Martinez has traveled throughout Latin America and Europe, and studied at the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.

Mr. Martinez earned his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Middlebury College.

Dr. Alejandro Ponce joined The World Justice Project as Senior Economist in 2009. He is a co-author of the WJP Rule of Law Index. Dr. Ponce has extensive experience in the development of cross-country indicators. Before joining the World Justice Project, he served as an Economist at the World Bank collaborating in the design of surveys to measure financial inclusion around the world. Earlier in his career, he worked as a consultant in the design of the index of judicial efficiency and regulation of dispute resolution as part of the Doing Business Indicators of the World Bank and served as Deputy Director for the Mexican Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV). Dr. Ponce has also conducted research on behavioral economics, financial inclusion and, more recently, on the linkage between economic development and the rule of law.

A national of Mexico, Dr. Ponce holds a B.A. in Economics from ITAM in Mexico, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

Ms. Christine Pratt is a Program Manager for The World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index. Ms. Pratt's previous experiences include the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Washington, DC, where she worked as the Policy Issues Coordinator, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, PA, where she researched post conflict reconstruction, state-building initiatives, and democratic transitions, specifically in Eastern Europe.

Ms. Pratt earned her M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University, and holds a B.A. in International Relations with a minor in Art History from Syracuse University.

Ms. Kelly Roberts joined The World Justice Project as a Rule of Law Index Intern in September 2009. Prior to working at the WJP, she was a legislative research assistant for the South Carolina Office of Senate Research. She joined The World Justice Project full time in May 2011 as a Rule of Law Index Research Assistant.

Ms. Roberts graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies. Before completing her degree, Ms. Roberts also studied at Moulay Ismail University in Meknes, Morocco.

Mr. Steve Ross joined the WJP in September 2009 and is responsible for managing a portfolio of Opportunity Fund seed grants. Prior to joining the WJP, Mr. Ross spent nearly two years with Pact Cambodia, based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, working on an anti-corruption program, and focusing in particular on engaging the private sector in anti-corruption efforts and helping to establish a coalition of Cambodian non-governmental organizations dedicated to monitoring extractive industry revenues. Previously, Mr. Ross was a research consultant at the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At CSIS, Mr. Ross co-authored Breaking Point: Measuring Progress in Afghanistan, a comprehensive evaluation of reconstruction in Afghanistan for which he designed and implemented the desk research methodology.

Mr. Ross graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History.

Mr. Joshua Steele is a Program Manager for The World Justice Project. Prior to joining the WJP, Mr. Steele obtained his Masters degree in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mr. Steele was an Orfalea Fellow at the Clinton Foundation in New York. Mr. Steele worked in Ghana while researching his thesis on nongovernmental evaluation. After completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Steele lived and traveled in South and Central America and furthered his undergraduate dissertation research into South and Central American street children.

Mr. Steele is a national of the United Kingdom. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Plymouth, School of Geography.

Ms. Nancy Ward is the Director, Mainstreaming Initiatives for The World Justice Project. Prior to joining the WJP, Ms. Ward served as Executive Assistant to Mr. William H. Neukom at the law firm of K&L Gates. She was the Event Manager/Board Liaison at the United Nations Foundation; Meeting Coordinator for the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict; and an early staff member of Women in International Security (WIIS).

Ms. Ward is a graduate of The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, with a major in International Relations.