Brad Adams is an American lawyer and the founder and executive director at Climate Rights International.
Adams established what would become the East Bay Community Law Center, where he worked as a legal aid attorney.
[2] Adams was an All-CIF baseball and basketball player in high school at Montclair Prep in Van Nuys, California.
[5] Adams spent five years in Cambodia as the senior lawyer for the Cambodian field office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and as legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament’s human rights committee.
[5] Then, Adams was the executive director of the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch[6] from 2002–2022, overseeing investigations, advocacy and media work in twenty countries.