Bradford P. Johnson – Rule of Law, Program Design and Implementation

Mr. Johnson heads the Johnson Law Group and engages in the general practice of  law and international development consulting. He specializes in representing clients in civil rights, commercial, probate and criminal matters. Mr. Johnson provides technical assistance in legal reform, governance and related issues in countries around the world. He advises international development firms on FAR compliance, business development and other operational issues.

Until recently, Mr. Johnson was the Washington Office Director for ARD, Inc., where he specialized in institutional development and rule of law projects that focused on legal reform and related training activities. He provided home office support for land privatization activities in Central Asia, as well as a rule of law/anticorruption project in Nepal, and commercial law projects in east Africa, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.  Mr. Johnson participated in ARD's Information and Knowledge Management and Democracy and Governance Sectors and was a leader in ARD's ICT4D^SM Working Group, which promoted the use of information and communication technologies in developing and emerging market countries. He has led or participated in IT-related activities in Armenia, Egypt, Bulgaria, Sri Lanka and Morocco.  

Mr. Johnson is an experienced attorney with expertise in handling international projects in law and economic and political development, with emphasis on the use of new communication technology in development activities in countries as diverse as Cyprus, Georgia, Nigeria and Angola. He has extensive international experience in conducting needs assessments and feasibility studies on issues related to democracy and governance, court administration, the practice and development of law, electronic commerce, legal database development, and related issues.  In recent years, Mr. Johnson has conducted or participated in democracy and governance-related assessments in Albania, Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. A member of the D.C. Bar since 1985 and the Vermont Bar since 2007, Mr. Johnson has practiced corporate, civil rights and criminal law.  He is an experienced training professional, having conducted numerous high-level and grassroots conflict resolution and rule of law training sessions for the United Nations, USAID, the Organization for African Unity, the Organization of American States, the former U.S. Information Agency, the National Defense University and other organizations. 

Mr. Johnson previously headed the Institute of World Affairs, an international non-governmental organization where he specialized on rule of law, civil society and conflict resolution issues, which included a five-year project related to environmental health law in Russia. He also served with the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the U.S. Information Agency. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Antioch School of Law (J.D.), the University of Massachusetts (M.A., Russian) and Middlebury College (B.A., Russian). Mr. Johnson is fluent in Russian, conversant in Spanish, and has a reading knowledge of German.

Mr. Johnson resides on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children. He serves on the board of the Institute of World Affairs and is a  member of the Society for International Development/Washington Chapter, the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, the Institute of Current World Affairs and the Professional Services Council. He is President of the Lakeview Terrace Garden Condominium Association in Burlington, VT.

Keith Henderson – Rule of Law and Anti-corruption  

Mr. Henderson is an Adjunct Professor of Law at American University ’s Washington College of Law where he teaches a course he created seven years ago entitled: Global Corruption and the Rule of Law.  He brings over 15 years of anti-corruption and rule of law experience to the global development table, having worked on programs for various governments, businesses, NGO’s and donors in over 50 countries as diverse as China, Russia, Afghanistan, Peru, Haiti, Lebanon and Malawi.  From 1993 to 1998, Henderson held several positions at USAID, including ENI’s Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor in the Democracy and Governance and Privatization and Economic Restructuring Office, ENI Deputy Division Chief in the Democracy and Governance Office and Senior Rule of Law Advisor in the Global Bureau’s Policy, Planning and Coordination Office.

Known as a pioneer and innovator in the field of anti-corruption and rule of law, Henderson was responsible for assessing, designing and managing the first rule of law and anti-corruption programs in the countries of the former Soviet Union during the early 1990’s, which was a $75 million multi-year Presidential initiative.  He also promoted, conceptualized and birthed the first anti-corruption strategy and program for USAID and the Department of State, the OECD Global Anti-Corruption Network, the Asian Pacific Supreme Court Judicial Reform Network, the USAID/Freedom House publication Nations in Transit and co-authored the USAID/Freedom House publication, A Global Guide for Promoting Judicial Independence and Accountability.  In addition, Henderson created the first systematic global monitoring and reporting frameworks for promoting and assessing international best practices principles related to judicial and parliamentary independence. 

Henderson ’s anti-corruption and rule of law expertise in the anti-corruption, democracy and governance and economic growth fields covers the gamut, including the development of policy, cross- implementation and evaluation. His more recent work took him to China for the Department of State, where he launched a judicial independence project with the Supreme People’s Court in China , and to Azerbaijan , where he developed an anti-corruption strategy and action plan for the President’s Anti-Corruption Commission on behalf of USAID. He also recently served as the UNDP Team Leader for country-wide, cross-sectoral anti-corruption assessments.

Henderson has lectured on a wide range of rule of law and anti-corruption topics, including: human rights, judicial/legal/regulatory reform, public procurement reform, independent media and investigative journalism, media law, access to information, whistle blowing, trade and investment, financial crimes and money laundering, civil society monitoring/advocacy, and on laws and treaties such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the OECD Anti-Bribery Treaty, the Inter-American Anti-Corruption Convention and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.  He has also testified before the U.S. Congress on key anti-corruption issues, such as what to do about international money laundering and organized crime and corruption in Russia , has a Master’s degree in international public law from Georgetown University and is the author of numerous articles on a wide range of cutting-edge corruption and rule of law issues.  

Frederick Humphreys – Court Administration and Management

Mr. Humphreys served at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts from 1988 to 2004. He was responsible primarily for analyzing staffing requirements and workloads in the Federal Judiciary, with a particular focus on the impact of automation, legislation, and changes in procedures.  He also developed a methodology for better practices to support process improvement and promote organizational efficiency.

Since retiring from the Federal Judiciary in 2004, Mr. Humphreys has focused his work on international justice sector reform, and has served as a consultant on several projects to improve the administration of justice in developing countries.  Major efforts have been in the areas of rule of law, court administration, and anti-corruption activities (Nepal, Bosnia, and Serbia ), cash and financial management (Morocco), program evaluation (Bulgaria), and automation (Tajikistan). Earlier, he participated in projects on insolvency reform in Albania and Romania. Mr. Humphreys is the President of Humphreys and Associates.

Jack Rosholt – Commercial and International Law

Mr. Rosholt retired from careers as a lawyer and businessman in Minneapolis in 2002. Shortly thereafter his wife joined the Foreign Service and he has accompanied her to posts in Mexico and Costa Rica . Now living in Washington, Mr. Rosholt specializes in foreign affairs in the context of international development. His law practice was focused on the construction industry and international commercial transactions. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota , teaching a course in the legal aspects of the construction industry. He is the editor of An Engineer Looks at the Law and An Engineer Applies the Law. His article “The Arbitration Option” (in Costa Rica ) was recently published in Costa Rican Business. Mr. Rosholt is a graduate of Yale University , having majored in Economics, and the University of Minnesota Law School.

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