Nizar El Fakih is a nonresident senior fellow with the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council. He is a lawyer who has served as a consultant on law and public policy for multilateral development banks and other international organizations in Washington, DC, on issues related to procurement, regulatory frameworks and reforms, institutional capacity building, transparency and integrity, country programs and strategies, and public-private partnerships. 

Earlier in his career, El Fakih practiced law at international law firms while providing pro bono legal assistance on human rights issues. He has served as an associate professor at the faculty of law at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, and has lectured at universities in the United States and Latin America including Tufts University, Emerson College, Universidad de Los Andes, and Universidad Iberoamericana.

El Fakih has been a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, an advisory council member of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, and a fellow at Harvard University, where he also served as co-chair of the Venezuelan Caucus. El Fakih holds a JD-equivalent degree from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, and master’s degrees in laws and public administration from Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame, respectively.