Roberta Cohen

Roberta Cohen "is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, serves as co-director of its Project on internal displacement, and is co-author with Francis M. Deng of Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings, 1998)." 

"Current Position(s): Co-Director, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; Principal Adviser to the Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

"Previous Position(s): 2003 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; 1998 Public Member, U.S. Delegation to U.N. Commission on Human Rights; Senior Adviser to National Academy of Sciences and Refugee Policy Group; Consultant to UNHCR, World Bank; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Senior Adviser to Delegation to U.N., U.S. Department of State; Honorary Secretary, Parliamentary Human Rights Group (London); Executive Director, International League for Human Rights (New York).“


 * Member, Human Rights Watch Africa Advisory Committee
 * Former Director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
 * Commissioners: Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
 * Endorser, Genocide Intervention Network
 * Advisory Board, Iraqi Women's Educational Institute
 * Editorial Board, Global Responsibility to Protect
 * Winner of the 2005 Grawemeyer Award

She is married to David A. Korn.