Santiago Canton is secretary general of the International Commission of Jurists. He previously served as the director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law program at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, secretary of human rights of the Province of Buenos Aires, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, executive director of Partners for Human Rights at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights,  executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, special rapporteur for freedom of expression of the Inter-American System, and director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He is currently the chair of the Panel of Independent Experts established by the OAS regarding crimes against humanity in Venezuela. He is a recipient of the Inter American Press Association’s Chapultepec Grand Prize for his contributions to the promotion and defense of freedom of expression. Mr. Canton currently teaches human rights at the University of Buenos Aires and at American University’s Washington College of Law. Mr. Canton holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a master’s degree in international law from American University’s Washington College of Law.