Ronald L. Gainer

Attorney, Washington, D.C.

Member of the Society Board of Directors
Member of the Society Management Committee
Member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre
for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy

Ronald L. Gainer is a consulting attorney providing legal and policy advice with regard to national and international criminal justice problems, particularly with transnational fraud or corruption.

He was previously the founding partner of a Washington, DC, law firm specializing in assisting governmental and corporate clients in preventing and resolving criminal justice problems in commercial activities.

He is a former Associate Deputy Attorney-General and a former Director of Policy and Planning at the U.S. Department of Justice where he supervised the Department's fifteen-year effort to develop a new Federal Criminal Code.

He is a also a former member of the United Nations Crime Committee and a former ex-officio member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission.

Mr. Gainer holds a B.A. from Michigan State University, 1956, and a J.D. from University of Michigan, 1959. He was called to the New York Bar in 1960 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1963.