Michael H. Posner Biography

Michael H. Posner served from 2009 to 2013 in the Obama Administration as Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor at the State Department. From 1978 to 2009 he led Human Rights First a New York-based human rights advocacy organization. He is a frequent public commentator on these issues and has testified dozens of times before the U.S. Congress. As Assistant Secretary Posner traveled extensively representing the U.S. Government to foreign officials and representatives of civil society in countries of strategic importance to the United States including China Russia Egypt Burma Bahrain Nigeria Afghanistan and Pakistan among many others. As a member of the White House Apparel Industry Partnership Task Force in the mid-'90s he helped found the Fair Labor Association (FLA) an organization that brings together corporations local leaders universities and NGOs to promote corporate accountability for working conditions in the apparel industry. He was a founding member of the Global Network Initiative a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at promoting free expression and privacy rights on the Internet and has spoken widely on the issue of Internet freedom.

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