Steven Solomon

Steven Solomon is Principal Legal Officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where he leads the Legal Office’s team on International, Constitutional and Global Health Law matters (ICH). He focuses on governance, and international and global health law matters, with a particular emphasis recently on matters related to international and institutional aspects of the Covid-19 response. He serves as Deputy Head of the Secretariat team supporting both the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body aimed at developing a pandemic accord, and the Intergovernmental Working Group considering amendments to strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005). He also served as the WHO legal adviser to the negotiations which led to the 2011 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework. Prior to joining WHO, Steven was the Deputy Legal Counselor at the United States Mission to United Nations Organizations in Geneva, negotiating a variety of human rights and humanitarian law instruments. He was an attorney with the State Department for several years before that, handling negotiations related to the control of strategic and conventional weapons. After law school, before joining the State Department, Steven was a lawyer in private practice at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly. He also worked on Capitol Hill. Steven has written widely on matters pertaining to international law, including global health and humanitarian law matters.