Michael Posner
Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (since July 2009)
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(Human Rights First)
Posner has been at the forefront of almost every major human-rights issue in the last 30 years. The founder of Human Rights First turned a group of two staffers and $55,000 into an organization that boasts 60 employees and an annual budget of $9 million. Along the way, the group has been a leading advocate of the rule of law, legal protection for asylum-seekers, and fair labor regulations for factory workers around the world. He has also been a fierce critic of the George W. Bush administration's war on terror, calling on Americans to rally against enhanced interrogation techniques and supporting U.S. entrance to the International Criminal Court.
Now, Posner will likely bring this passion to the State Department. He is Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's assistant secretary of the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
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