Kenneth Roth

Former Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

Kenneth Roth is the former executive director of Human Rights Watch. His new book is Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments. He has extensively investigated human rights abuses around the world, focusing on the world’s most dire situations, the pursuit of international justice and the tension between democracy and autocracy. He has written for NYT , The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, and other major publications. He spends his time between NY and Geneva.