DR. LYN BOYD-JUDSON

Founder and Executive Director of the Global Women's Narratives Project, Co-director, Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics, Former UNESCO Chair in Global Humanities and Ethics 2016-2019. Boyd-Judson's current research in international human rights law for Oxford focuses on the right to mental health for women survivors of violence. From 2015 – 2018, she was executive director and co-chair of the board of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights. She earlier served as the executive director of the Institute for Humanities and Ethics at the University of Southern California for eleven years where she taught in the Honors Program, the School of Religion, the School of International Relations, and the School of Journalism. She is a member of the Presidential Task Force of the Pacific Council on International Policy, serving as an observer of pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Previous and linked affiliations include RAND, the Carter Presidential Center, the Hong Kong Legislative Council, the United States Embassy Berlin-Third Reich Document Center, the USC Center for International Studies, the Walt Disney Company Asia-Pacific, and Dow Jones News Service. She is the author of Strategic Moral Diplomacy: Understanding the Enemy’s Moral Universe and co-editor (with Patrick James) of Women’s Global Health: State Policies and International Norms. Boyd-Judson is currently writing a dissertation for the International Human Rights Law Program at the University of Oxford.