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Bertrand G. Ramcharan

Bertrand G. Ramcharan is a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. His three decades of UN service included five years as deputy UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and acting High Commissioner. He was a professor of human rights at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a chancellor of the University of Guyana. He is the author, among other books, of "Contemporary Human Rights Ideas"; "The UN Human Rights Council"; "Preventive Human Rights Strategies"; and "Preventive Diplomacy at the UN." His latest book, "The Law, Policy and Politics of the UN Human Rights Council," was published in 2017.

Ramcharan, who is Guyanan, is a lawyer with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. He lives in Geneva and in Scotland.

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