pedropizano

Pedro Pizano is a Colombian-born human rights activist and new media specialist. He just started his own and perhaps the first human rights consulting firm: Pizano Strategies. He co-founded The World Votes and is a One Young World Ambassador. He previously held the post of Strategy Associate and Global Media Liaison at the Human Rights Foundation and Oslo Freedom Forum where he led, for example, campaigns to expose celebrities who flack for dictators, like Hilary Swank in Chechnya. His opinions have appeared in The Economist, Foreign Policy, the BBC, Forbes, the Global Post, the Huffington Post, and Al Jazeera, to name a few. He is fluent in Spanish, English and French and is now studying Arabic and Law at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. He studied International Human Rights Law at Oxford and holds a bachelors degree from Boston University. He was recently recognized by the Diplomatic Courier as one of the top 99 under 33 leaders in foreign policy.

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