Peter McRae is a retired Foreign Service officer. Posted to Vienna, Havana and Geneva, he was seconded to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna from 1997 to 2003 as its Legal Adviser. International Humanitarian Law was an area of concentration throughout his years with the Legal Bureau and formed the basis for his 2012 University of Ottawa LL.M. thesis, Unaccountable Soldiers: Private Military Companies and the Law of Armed Conflict.
