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| Saul Takahashi / Lawyer |
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 Saul Takahashi is a human rights lawyer, and has worked in many different fields of human rights and human security. He grew up in the United States and in Japan, and started his career as Refugee Coordinator of the Japanese Section of Amnesty International, where he set up the office’s refugee operation and assisted individual asylum seekers in presenting their refugee claims to the Japanese government. After completing his studies in the United Kingdom, he was employed as Refugee Officer in the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London, where he was responsible for formulating policy on refugee protection issues. Takahashi subsequently worked in the International Organisation for Migration and then the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Despite these detours, Takahashi always remained a human rights lawyer at heart, and he is currently employed as Deputy Head of Office of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He works in Ramallah, in the West Bank, where he is establishing the office’s operation to monitor and document human rights violations in the occupied territories.
Takahashi holds a BA in Philosopy from Waseda University and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. He has taught courses on human security issues at Tokyo University Graduate School, Akita International University, and other universities, and is currently conducting research towards a PhD in law at the University of Vienna, comparing the effectiveness of treaty monitoring mechanisms in the fields of human rights and drug control. |
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