Ken Roth was the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, from 1993-2022.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987, he served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world.
He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses, devoting special attention to issues of international justice, counterterrorism, the foreign policies of the major powers, and the work of the United Nations. Roth is based in New York and Geneva.
