Philippe Bolopion

Philippe Bolopion is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch. He was formerly the United Nations Director of Human Rights Watch and has held several leadership positions. Bolopion has extensive experience in designing and implementing Human Rights Watch’s advocacy strategies worldwide and in overseeing the organization’s advocacy response to crises. He has traveled extensively to conflict zones, including in Myanmar, Burundi, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Mali. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2010, he spent five years working with the French daily Le Monde as the UN correspondent in New York. He has also worked as a journalist for France 24 and Radio France Internationale (RFI). Before working in New York, Bolopion was based in Pristina, where he reported on the end of the Kosovo Conflict in 1999 and 2000. Most recently he was the managing director of the French asset management firm TOBAM, where he helped launch a democracy-centered investment strategy.

Bolopion is the author of “Guantanamo: le bagne du bout du monde” (La Découverte, 2004). He is a graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux and the CUEJ, the journalism school of Strasbourg.