EMPLOYMENT

Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo

and

Director of the Joint Office for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Office / United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC)

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

2008-current

Professor of Human Rights Law

Graduate School of International Area Studies          

United Nations-mandated University for Peace Dual Degree Program

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Local Korean Link)

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Local English Link)

Seoul, Korea

2008

Co-founder/Director of Global Programs

International Rights Advocates

2007 – 2008

Director

Center for Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial

2001 – 2006

Officer-in-Charge

Human Rights Division, UN Office in Angola

1998 – 2001

Visiting Fellow

Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

1997 - 1998

Consultant to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

1997- 1998

Consultant 

Commission of the European Communities

Directorate General for Development

November 1996

Head of Legal and Human Rights Promotion Unit

UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR), Kigali

1994 - 1996

UN Mission of Experts to Equatorial Guinea

UNDP Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva

June 1994

International Legal Adviser

Office of the Special Prosecutor

Transitional Government of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

(contracted through the Carter Center)

1993 - 1994

Directing Attorney

El Rescate

Los Angeles, CA

1987 ‑ 1993

Assorted Volunteer Legal Work

1985 – 1993