2012-2013 Carr Center Associates
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Loubna Freih Georges is Human Rights Watch's Europe-based Director for Strategic Initiatives where she identifies and leads international advocacy campaigns. Until 2006, Freih Georges was the organization's main advocate to the United Nation in Geneva where she founded and ran HRW's presence in Switzerland. She contributed actively to the UN's Reform Agenda in 2005 that led to the creation of the Human Rights Council. Since 2000, she has followed human rights crises in Darfur, Iraq, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Colombia and Uzbekistan, and worked closely with Mary Robinson, Sergio Vieira de Mello and Louise Arbour. Due to her advocacy efforts, an expert monitor on protecting human rights while countering terrorism was appointed in 2002.
Freih Georges was a Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School where she earned a Masters in Public Administration in 1999 and she graduated with an MA in Journalism from New York University in 1994. She is currently working on a campaign to ensure Russia's accountability in crimes committed against civilians during the two wars in Chechnya and is writing a memoir of her first years in Iraq where she was born.
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Gerald Knaus is founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI) since 1999. ESI, with 24 staff based in 10 cities from London to Baku, is today the largest think tank focusing on the Balkans, Turkey and the South Caucasus. Gerald studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna. He taught economics at the University of Chernivtsi (Ukraine) and worked for five years in Bulgaria and Bosnia for NGOs and international organizations, including the OHR in Sarajevo and as analyst for ICG. He was director of the Lessons Learned Unit of the EU Pillar of the UN Mission in Kosovo (from 2001 to 2004). Some of Gerald’s articles have triggered wide public debates, including "Travails of the European Raj" on Bosnia (2003) and "Member State Building and the Helsinki Moment" (2004). He co-authored more than 60 ESI reports as well as scripts for award-winning TV documentaries on South East Europe. He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a 2007/2008 Open Society Fellow. In 2004 he moved to Istanbul. He regularly writes for the Rumeli Observer.
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Carolina Larriera has a decade of experience working at the United Nations, at the headquarters in New York, and on UN missions to East Timor and Iraq. In East Timor, she was engaged in the development and transformation of small government divisions into fully-fledged ministries, her mission ending with the declaration of the independence of Timor-Leste in 2002. Carolina's next UN political mission in Baghdad was during the US war in Iraq, developing programs on the employability and economic rights of widows as part of the mission's human rights component, as well as coordinating preparations for the first international donor conference. Since surviving the the terrorist attack to the UN office in Baghdad, in 2003, she has started a regional office in South America for a Swiss NGO, focusing on advocacy issues, helping expand the work of the Brazilian Agency for Cooperation's policy on international assistance, and taught at the university level at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, and the IBMEC Institute in Brazil. She holds a graduate degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and has just completed her Mid-Career MPA at the Harvard Kennedy School. Carolina's research focus, during her fellowship, is the security environment of international agencies in the 21st century, and the new sources of insecurity facing organizations active in conflict areas.
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Boris Muñoz is currently a Fellow in the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2009, he was awarded the Nieman Fellowship by the Nieman Foundation for the Advancement of Journalism and was subsequently a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, at Harvard University.
Muñoz is a Venezuelan journalist and writer with an extensive academic and journalistic experience in Latin American and Venezuela current affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic American Literature and Culture at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has worked as investigative reporter, feature writer and columnist. Boris has been a New York correspondent for El Nacional, most recognized Venezuelan newspaper, chief editor of Nueva Sociedad, a renowned social sciences journal published by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and editorial director of Exceso, the most influential investigative journalism magazine in Venezuela. His books La ley de la calle, Más allá de la ciudad letrada, and Despachos del imperio have garnered critical acclaim in Venezuela and other South American countries. He has been awarded the Fernando Lázaro Carreter International Award for Journalism, La Frontera Institute Grant at Dartmouth College, and the Nieman Fellowship.
As a Fellow at the Latin American Initiative of the Carr Center, Muñoz has been researching and documenting the illegal detention of judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni in Venezuela, as well as coordinating the Carr Center's humanitarian effort to liberate her in association with MIT's professor Noam Chomsky.
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