Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett serves as president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, which she founded in 2008 to continue the legacy of her father, the late Congressman Tom Lantos. He served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, co-founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (now the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission), and was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress.

Under her leadership, the Lantos Foundation has become a respected voice on key human rights issues ranging from advancing rule of law and freedom of religion and belief globally, to fighting for Internet freedom in closed societies, to combating the persistent and growing threat of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

Dr. Lantos Swett is the former Chair and Vice Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and teaches courses on human rights and American foreign policy at Tufts University. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and the Budapest-based Tom Lantos Institute. She has served as Co-Chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit since its inaugural gathering in 2021.