Michael McEachrane is Member and Rapporteur of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. He is a 2024 Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and a 2024-2025 Racial Justice Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center. He is also a Senior Visiting Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund, Sweden, an external affiliate at the University College London (UCL) Sarah Parker Remond Centre Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Åbo Akademi University in Finland and has held positions at universities in the U.S., Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, Sweden, Germany, and the UK. His current research focuses on postcolonial/ decolonial perspectives on people of African descent, human rights, systemic and structural racial discrimination, and reparatory justice. Among his publications is a forthcoming collection of essays, Decolonial Sweden (Routledge, 2024). Dr McEachrane is a seasoned international advocate for people of African descent, especially at the EU and UN levels, and also a regular commentator on issues of race for Swedish and international media.