Lewis Mudge

Lewis Mudge is Central Africa Director at Human Rights Watch, focusing on Burundi, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. Before joining Human Rights Watch he was based in Goma, eastern Congo, as the field manager for Interactive Radio for Justice, an organization dedicated to creating local radio programs that concentrated on International Criminal Court proceedings. He has spent the last 17 years focused on Central Africa. He has written several Human Rights Watch reports and his op-eds have appeared in major papers and news outlets, but his true love is field research and getting to understand the individual cost of human rights abuses. He has a Master’s in international politics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.