Frank La Rue is the Executive Director of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Europe and former UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to the freedom of opinion and expression (2008-14). He is widely respected as one of the world’s foremost human rights advocates, with particular expertise in political analysis; democratic development; and conflict management, negotiation, and resolution.A lawyer by training, Mr. La Rue is also a journalist, and has served in the Cabinet of the Government in his native Guatemala as Presidential Secretary for Human Rights, and has frequently taught and written about human rights.