Mike Lebowitz is one of the few war crimes prosecutors in the U.S. with direct, front-line counterterrorism experience. As a senior attorney in the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, he prosecuted cases at Guantanamo Bay, including those tied to 9/11, the USS Cole bombing, and senior al Qaeda leadership. He also practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. An Army combat veteran and former pathfinder-unit paratrooper, Lebowitz served as the Chief of National Security Law at U.S. Army Cyber Command, where he worked at the intersection of national security and emerging threats. He has taught war crimes and national security law at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School at the University of Virginia and has published extensively on terrorism and national security.

Lebowitz is currently a Judge Advocate in the Army Reserve where he serves as a legal advisor to the Army General Counsel. In his civilian capacity, he is a senior attorney in the Legislative Branch at the Government Accountability Office (GAO). At the GAO, he leads investigations on behalf of Congressional committees into, among other items, how cyber issues and emerging technologies impact federal systems.