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David Marshall works with the United Nations, most recently deployed to South Sudan as the acting Director of the Rule of Law and Security Institutions Support Office in the new UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). His prior UN positions include acting legal advisor to the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Special Envoy on Darfur in 2005, acting legal advisor to the head of OHCHR Nepal (2007) and acting senior human rights advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) (2007-2008). He is a graduate of the University of Leeds and Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he will be researching UN Secretariat engagement in rule of law in post-conflict states.