Beth Van Schaack is an American attorney and academic who served in the Biden administration as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice.

Van Schaack obtained a bachelor of arts from Stanford University, a juris doctor from Yale Law School, and a PhD from Leiden Law School at the University of Leiden.

[1] As an attorney, she was an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP, as well as working with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

On October 21, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Van Schaack to be the ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice.

[2] Hearings on her nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on January 12, 2022.