Alexandra Lily Kather is a legal advisor with the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council. Kather provides expert legal advice to a range of accountability actors, including on the strategic investigation and prosecution of intersectional dimensions of violations of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. 

Their work has focused on gender-based and slavery crimes. It contributed to advancing a successful prosecution of rape and sexual coercion as crimes against humanity committed in government-run detention facilities in Syria in the Anwar R. case (Higher Regional Court of Koblenz, Germany) and the first-ever successful prosecution of persecution on intersecting grounds of religion and gender of the Yazidi in the Sarah O. case (Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, Germany). 

Kather has collaborated with accountability actors in the following ways: investigation coordination, documentation methodology and information management review, gender and intersectional analysis, factual and legal analysis, drafting of reports and legal submissions, and legal advocacy strategy.

In 2021, Kather was a visiting fellow at the Hertie School’s Centre for Fundamental Rights and Goldsmith University’s Unit for Global Justice.

Since 2022, they have been part of the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Justice Experts Roster jointly managed by Justice Rapid Response and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women). Kather has, among others, worked for the United Nations Commission of International Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, UN Women, the Center for Justice and Accountability, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, the Clooney Foundation for Justice, the International Truth and Justice Project, Human Rights Watch, the International Accountability Platform for Belarus, the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, and the International Law Program at Chatham House.