Eduardo Bertoni

Professor Eduardo Bertoni (PhD, Buenos Aires University) is currently the Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law ate the American University Washington College of Law. Representative of the Regional Office for South America of the Inter American Institute of Human Rights until December 2023. First Director of the Access to Public Information Agency (AAIP) which is the Argentine Data Protection and Access to Information Authority. Founder and director of the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Palermo University School of Law, Argentina. Executive Director of the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) until May, 2006. Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights at the Organization of American States (2002-2005). Teaching Fellow at the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University School of Law (2001). Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow (2012-13) at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Former member of the advisory boards of the Human Rights Initiative (Open Society Foundations), the Media Legal Defence Initiative, the Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet), among others. Dr. Bertoni has also worked as an advisor to the Department of Justice and Human Rights in Argentina. He is an Argentinean lawyer and holds a Masters in International Policy and Practice from the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Prof. Bertoni taught at Buenos Aires University School of Law and New York University School of Law (Global Clinical Professor), among other universities. He published several opinion pieces on democracy and human rights in leading newspapers in the Americas and has written several publications on judicial reforms, international criminal law and human rights & Internet.