Todd Howland

Todd Howland (website – LinkedIn) has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of human rights. He is currently the Interim Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic and Visiting Professor at the Vermont Law and Graduate School and a Senior Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. Recently, he served as Chief of Development and Economic and Social Rights Branch of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva. He also served as OHCHR Representative in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola among other UN posts. 

He has authored over 30 scholarly articles and published over 80 commentaries on human rights in newspapers and magazines. He has worked for a number of advocacy groups, including what is now known as the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center. He is also a co-founder of Human Rights Radio. 

He holds a JD (Order of the Coif) and MA in political economy from the University of Denver, attended the Hague Academy of International Law, was a Fellow at the Harvard Human Rights Program, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Nanda Center at the University of Denver.