Michael Posner

Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, USA. Founder and President of Human Rights First, he has been at the forefront of the international human rights movement for 30 years. Previously, he was a lawyer with Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Chicago, a lecturer at Yale Law School and a visiting lecturer at Columbia Law School. A member of the California Bar and the Illinois Bar, he received his JD from the University of California, Berkeley Law School and a BA from the University of Michigan.