About Rick St. Hilaire
Rick St. Hilaire is an attorney, executive leader, and former chief prosecutor who has been practicing law for three decades. In addition to corporate and nonprofit legal counsel, litigation, and international humanitarian law, his professional practice includes a particular focus on transnational cultural heritage crime.
Attorney St. Hilaire served two White House administrations as a presidential appointee to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the U.S. State Department on proposed cultural property agreements with foreign nations.
He is the author of “Cultural Property Protection in the Context of Counter-Terrorist Financing: An Emerging Legal Paradigm in the United States,” published in in 2022 by Oxford University Press in the book titled, The Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War.
Rick St. Hilaire is the founder and former executive director of Red Arch Cultural Heritage Law & Policy Research and served as the first Vice President of SAFE | Saving Antiquities for Everyone. He is an active member of the International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection.
Attorney St. Hilaire received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University.