Janet Lord

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Janet E. Lord is an international public lawyer by training and currently serves as senior research fellow at the Harvard Law School Project on Disability and senior legal advisor for the UN Special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities. She regularly provides independent counsel on international and comparative disability law and inclusive development projects for the World Bank, UN agencies, the US Department of State and numerous non-governmental organizations. Earlier in her career she served as legal counsel to non-governmental organizations, the United Nations and like-minded governments throughout the negotiation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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