Dr. Nasredeen Abdulbari

Dr. Nasredeen Abdulbari is the Principal and Managing Partner of Garsila Consultancies, where he also serves as Senior Legal and Policy Advisor. In addition, he is a Senior Peace Fellow at the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) and a Nonresident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs.

Dr. Abdulbari was Sudan’s Minister of Justice, where he acted as the principal legal advisor to the Government of Sudan, spearheaded transformational legal and justice reforms, and was deeply involved in political reform and state-restructuring efforts, focusing on constituent, regulatory, and substantive public policy initiatives aimed at building a stable, just, and properly functioning democratic state.

Before his ministerial appointment, Dr. Abdulbari consulted for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, served as a legal advisor to the Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission to the U.S., and worked as a research consultant for the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) in Washington, DC, where he supervised a group of researchers and advised them on anti-corruption research projects.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Abdulbari worked as a teaching assistant and then a lecturer in the International and Comparative Law Department at the University of Khartoum, teaching public international law, conflict of laws, and introduction to the English legal system. On a Satter Fellowship from Harvard Law School, he worked as a staff attorney and Head of the Protection, Peacebuilding, and Psychosocial Unit at the Sudan Social Development Organization (SUDO). In East Africa, he was a senior researcher at the Rift Valley Institute and a consultant for the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Dr. Abdulbari has authored academic articles published in journals such as the Journal of African Law, the African Human Rights Law Journal, the Birkbeck Law Review, the Jurist, and the Harvard Human Rights Law Journal. His opinion pieces have, inter alia, appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He co-authored a book, “The Future Constitution of Sudan: Aspirations and Views,” published by Ahfad University Press, and contributed a chapter to “Making and Breaking Peace in Sudan and South Sudan: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond,” published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Abdulbari holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honors (LL.B.(Hons.)) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Khartoum, where he was consistently ranked first in his class and received nine academic distinction awards. He also earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he was a Stoffel Scholar and a Landon H. Gammon Fellow, and a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) from the Georgetown University Law Center.