Felice D. Gaer

Director of AJC’s Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. Vice Chair of the Committee Against Torture, a United Nations treaty-monitoring body, on which she has served since 2000. Former Chair and member of the bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a federal advisory body. Former Regents Professor at The University of California at Los Angeles, 2010.  Co-editor with Christen Broecker of The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Conscience for the World (2013) and many articles about human rights and the UN. You can follow her on twitter @JBI_HumanRights.