Dr. Emanovsky is a Board-certified Forensic Anthropologist with over 25 years of experience in the field working in a variety of contexts. From 2020-2025 he was working for international organizations working in capacity building and international development spheres with a concentration in Humanitarian Forensic Action. Most recently as the Identification Coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Where he was responsible for identifying individuals who went missing because of regional conflicts in the 1990s.

Prior to his work with the ICRC, he was the Head of the Anthropology and Archeology Division and Co-Coordinator of the Science and Technology program of the International Commission of Missing Persons (ICMP) based in The Hague, The Netherlands. ICMP works with governments, civil society organizations, justice institutions, international organizations and others throughout the world to address the issue of people who have gone missing as a result of armed conflict, human rights abuses, disasters, organized crime, irregular migration and other causes.

 Before that Dr. Emanovsky worked for more than 18 years at the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratories (DPAA), where he led over 45 archaeological investigations and recoveries of World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War era crash sites and battlefield burials. He also participated in disaster victim identification efforts following mass fatality incidents and provided numerous consultations for the recovery and forensic anthropological analysis of current medico-legal casework. From 2014-2020 he was a Supervisory Forensic anthropologist and managed the DPAA laboratory’s special projects (e.g., radiographic comparisons, commingled remains identification projects, and the disinterment program).

His research interests revolve around Forensic Anthropology, Archeology, and large-scale human identification projects, including method development and validation, accreditation initiatives, standardization, policy development, and judgement epistemology.

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