A native of Havre, Montana, Geoffrey Swenson is currently the legal adviser for the Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste and in-country director for Stanford Law School's Timor-Leste Legal Education Project.

Previously, he was the Foundation’s rule of law specialist in Nepal and a fellow with the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation.  While earning a JD from Stanford, Geoff served as a senior associate for the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, the president of the National Security and the Law Society, and a submissions editor for the Stanford Journal of International Law.

Prior to law school, Geoff was a Junior Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Democracy and Rule of Law Project and a political party development specialist at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. Geoff also holds a BA from Grinnell College and a master's degree from Queen's University Belfast as a George Mitchell Scholar.