Expertise
Human rights; humanitarian and refugee issues; internal displacement
Background
Current Positions
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; Senior Adviser to the Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
Past Positions
2001-2007 Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; 1998-2006 co-director Brookings Project on Internal Displacement; 2003 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; 1998 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Commission on Human Rights; Senior Adviser to National Academy of Sciences and Refugee Policy Group; Consultant to UNHCR, World Bank; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Senior Adviser to Delegation to U.N., U.S. Department of State; Honorary Secretary, Parliamentary Human Rights Group (London); Executive Director, International League for Human Rights (New York)
Education
Ph.D. (honorary) University of Bern, 2006; M.A., School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 1963; B.A., Barnard College, 1960