Eileen Donahoe
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council · United States · On the map · Politicians
Eileen Donahoe is an American human rights activist and former U.S. diplomat who recently served as U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom at the Department of State.
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Previously, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council, having been appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. She was the first ambassador following the referent UN body changing from the predecessor United Nations Commission on Human Rights. After serving her term as ambassador, Donahoe was appointed as Director of Global Affairs for Human Rights Watch, where she focused on digital security and Internet governance. She then founded and served as Executive Director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Cyber Policy Center working at the intersection of governance, technology and human rights. She was an affiliate of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.