Hillel Neuer

Hillel Neuer is an international human rights lawyer, diplomat, and the executive director of UN Watch, a human rights NGO and UN watchdog group. Since 2009, Neuer has headed a coalition of 25 human rights groups as chair of the annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, an international gathering providing a global platform to pro-democracy dissidents from around the world who put their lives on the line to demand fundamental freedoms in oppressive regimes. Prior to joining UN Watch, Neuer practiced commercial and civil rights litigation at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP and served as a law clerk for Justice Itzhak Zamir at the Supreme Court of Israel. Neuer has testified before the United Nations, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the European Parliament, as well as the parliaments of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He taught international human rights at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as Vice President of the NGO Special Committee on Human Rights in Geneva. Mr. Neuer has been quoted as an expert on the United Nations and human rights by the New York Times, Die Welt, and Le Monde, and has appeared in debates on CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera.