Grant Dawson has served as the Principal Legal Officer of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of Cabinet of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and a Legal Officer and Deputy Chef de Cabinet at the United Nations. He has also worked as an assistant attorney general, commercial litigator, and federal appellate judicial law clerk. He has published and lectured on a wide range of international legal subjects. A licensed attorney in New York and Washington, DC, Mr Dawson is a PhD Candidate at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Law. He earned his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Centre and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics at Columbia College.