Robert Kushen

Robert Kushen joined MDAC’s board in September 2004 and serves as secretary. He holds a J.D. from Columbia University, a B.A. from Harvard University in Russian Studies and is the author of a number of publications in the area of human rights and non-profit law.

Presently, he is the Managing Director of the European Roma Rights Centre, which engages in legal advocacy on behalf of Roma throughout Europe and is a member of the New York Bar Association and the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the boards of several non-governmental organisations. Before that, he was the Executive Director of the Harvard PEPFAR program, which provided HIV treatment services to over 100,000 patients in three countries in Africa. From 1996-1999 and 2003-2007, he held a number of positions at the Open Society Institute, serving as Deputy Director, Special Counsel and Director of International Operations." From 1999 to 2002, he served as Executive Director of Doctors of the World, a non-governmental organisation committed to addressing health care problems caused by human rights abuses in the U.S. and around the world. From 1991-1996, he served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he worked as counsel to the bureau on counter-terrorism, liaison to the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and negotiated a number of international agreements in the areas of scientific and environmental cooperation.

 

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