Andres B. Munoz-Mosquera is a scholar of international law and international relations, attorney-at-law, and former judge. He has been specializing in institutional and treaty law, as well as in the intersection of international law and religion, and the relation between international humanitarian law and human rights law. He holds a PhD from Leiden University, an MA from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and JD/LLM degrees from Universities Complutense and Europea. He is a graduate from the NATO Defence College (GFAC) and US Army JAG School. He master’s thesis, Democratization through UN peacekeeping operations? Peacekeeping regimes, examines the question of whether peacekeeping operations establish peacekeeping regimes in the territories in which they deploy. His doctoral dissertation, North Atlantic Treaty Organization: An International Institutional Law Perspective, explores the legal frameworks governing international organizations, using NATO as a case study.
Before coming to BC, Munoz-Mosquera served as the NATO Supreme Headquarters’ fifth Director of the Office of Legal Affairs from 2014-2015, following thirteen years as deputy. Earlier in his career Munoz-Mosquera started as a case officer/paralegal and tank commander. He was a permanent member of the Spanish inter-ministerial delegation to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva. He was also deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was involved in negotiating anti-sniping agreements and facilitating the exchange of prisoners and corpses in Sarajevo. Later, as a counter-intelligence officer for the US-led Allied Military Intelligence Battalion, he identified and collected evidence of war crimes in support of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He served as a judge at the European Union SatCen Appeals Board before it was absorbed by the European Court of Justice.
He has been involved in rule of law matters in the Balkans and the Middle East, where he provided pro bono support to his bar association. He developed the concept of strategic legal intelligence and vigilance. Munoz-Mosquera handled multi-million-dollar cases related to NATO operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan.
Among his professional activities, Munoz-Mosquera has been consulted for drafting both the US Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act and the Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act. He has provided written witness to the UK and Swiss governments. He has negotiated and concluded more than eight hundred international agreements. Munoz-Mosquera held fellowships at Marine Corps University and The Fletcher School, and has taught, inter alia, at Reichman University, Sorbonne, Sevilla, West Point USMA, and the US National Defence University. He teaches pro bono at Universidad Catolica de Murcia. He has received numerous awards from the military, as well as from his bar association. He has been knighted twice.
