Carole Basri is a lawyer and filmmaker. She’s a visiting professor at Peking University School of Transnational Law and a visiting professor at Pericles Law School. At Fordham University Law School she was an adjunct professor from 2010 to 2018 and created the first LLM in Corporate Compliance in the world at Fordham Law School. She was also an adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 2003, Ms. Basri was a member of the US State Department’s “Future of Iraq” Project and a member of the Coalition Provisional Authority, with the Iraqi Reconstruction Development Council (IRDC) for Ambassador Bremer in Baghdad. Ms. Basri has Executive Produced a trilogy of films about Iraq’s Jewish community and history: THE LIFE OF FRANK INY (1999), SEARCHING FOR BAGHDAD (2002) and THE LAST JEWS OF BAGHDAD (2005). The trilogy has screened at over 80 premiere film festivals in the US, Canada, Israel and Europe and was featured on PBS and JLTV. She produced a short documentary on hemophiliacs in Iraq who got AIDS through tainted blood parts. She has been a commentator on Saddam’s trial, the Iraqi elections and its constitution for MSNBC, CNN, FOX, PBS and Al Iraqiya TV. Ms. Basri received at B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.