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As director, Mr. Hodes manages and oversees the Center's conflict resolution projects around the world and is responsible for maintaining readiness for potential negotiation interventions wherever they might arise.

Mr. Hodes has served in a variety of peacekeeping and post-conflict operations positions. He served from 1999-2001 as the judicial reform coordinator for Bosnia at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, responsible for devising and implementing strategies for development of an independent judiciary. Mr. Hodes also served with the United Nations between 1992-1996 at the U.N. headquarters in New York and in the field.

In the former Yugoslavia between 1994 and 1996, he advised the special representative of the secretary-general and senior military commanders on legal and policy matters. In addition, he engaged in negotiations with, and mediation between, the parties to the conflict in Bosnia on behalf of UNPROFOR. He was later named the first head of office in Sarajevo for the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. While in Somalia in 1993, Mr. Hodes participated in the investigation of the killing of U.N. peacekeepers and provided general legal advice to the special representative of the secretary-general of UNOSOM II.

He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development on projects relating to judicial reform and anti-corruption efforts in South America and Eastern Europe. In addition, Mr. Hodes has been a member of the adjunct faculty at the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre in Canada.

Mr. Hodes began his career in the U.S. Army and subsequently practiced law as a prosecutor and public defender in Florida. He received his bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He received his juris doctorate from the University of Miami and his master's of law degree in public international law from the University of London.