Bertrand G. Ramcharan of Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, was from 2011 to 2015 President of UPR Info,[1] an NGO working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review.
Ramcharan is the first holder of the HEI Swiss Chair of Human Rights at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies.
He served in the position of Deputy and then Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–2004), before Madam Louise Arbour, at the level of Under-Secretary-General, having previously worked for Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, when she subsequently became UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
He has taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies (HEI).
He is the author of numerous books on international law, human rights and the United Nations.