The InterDependent

Matthew D. Heaphy has served as deputy convener of the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) since July 2006.

Before joining AMICC, Heaphy worked as an associate legal officer in Trial Chamber I at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and interned as a law clerk to Judge Anita Ušacka at the International Criminal Court. He also worked as an antitrust litigation lawyer in San Francisco.

During law school, Heaphy clerked in the litigation department of a Brazilian law firm in Rio de Janeiro and represented human rights advocates as a Frank C. Newman intern at the 59th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights.

A graduate of Wesleyan University and the University of San Francisco School of Law cum laude, Heaphy has been a member of the State Bar of California since December 2003.