Barry A. Sanders is an international corporate lawyer who founded the International Practice Group at the global law firm of Latham & Watkins where he practiced for over 35 years. He was founding president of the Los Angeles Center for International Commercial Arbitration and founding chair of the International Law Section of the California State Bar Association. The California Lawyer’s Association named him International Lawyer of the Year in 2019. He is Chair of the Center on Public Diplomacy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy, and the Board of the RAND Center on Global Risk and Security. Sanders is author of American Avatar: The United States in the Global Imagination (2011) and The Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games (2013) as well as numerous articles and lectures on matters of international law and public policy. Sanders is an adjunct professor of Communications at UCLA teaching courses such as “Public Diplomacy” and “Architecture as Non-Verbal Communication.” He is deeply involved in Los Angeles civic and cultural life, having been Chair of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games, among other activities. He earned his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School.