Christopher Lehmann
International Member of the Commission
Christopher Lehmann
Christopher Lehmann is a former career prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, having served in senior roles with the Department in New York and Washington. He also has broad leadership experience in international criminal justice program delivery and prosecutorial capacity development, including 25 years of experience working with post-Soviet states.
Mr. Lehmann spent a decade as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (federal prosecutor) in the Eastern District of New York, where he specialized in organized crime, money laundering, corruption and election cases. Thereafter, he served as the Principal Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Overseas Programs (OPDAT), in Washington, D.C., where he managed justice sector reform programs across the world.
He also served as the first Criminal Law Liaison for the American Bar Associations CEELI Project in Ukraine (1998-99). More recently, from 2014 until 2022, he was the Executive Director of the CEELI Institute, an NGO based in Prague that is dedicated to advancing the Rule of Law and promoting justice sector reform.
Mr. Lehmann is a graduate of Washington University School of Law, in St. Louis, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a board member of the Stockholm-based International Legal Assistance Consortium. He is a recipient of the U.S. Department of Justice’s John Marshall Award.