José Miguel Vivanco Inostroza (born January 3, 1961) is a Chilean human rights lawyer, and the former executive director of the Americas Division of

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. He is now an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the

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Biography

Vivanco graduated as a lawyer from the University of Chile and later studied for a master's degree in law from Harvard. After graduating from his master's degree, he worked at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), first as a legal advisor and then as a lawyer. In 1990 he founded the Center for Justice and International Law (Cejil), a non-governmental organization that presents complaints about the region to international human rights organizations. In 1994 Vivanco began serving as executive director of the Americas Division of

. He has also been an adjunct professor of law at

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, American University Washington College of Law, and the School of Advanced International Studies at

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