Todd Howland is currently a Visiting Professor and Interim Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic at the Vermont Law and Graduate School. He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Race, Power, and Political Economy at the New School. He recently served as Chief of the Development and Economic and Social Rights Branch of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. There, he helped conceptualize and grow the concept of a Human Rights Economy. In addition, Howland has served as OHCHR Representative in Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, among other UN posts. Howland was director of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights in Washington, DC. He holds a JD and MA in political economy from the University of Denver and was a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Human Rights Program.
Jason Liang is an MPhil candidate in Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Global Affairs from Yale University. As an intern at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, he contributed to projects and reports related to the emerging concept of Human Rights Economy. His research interests span international law, China-North America relations, and East Asian regional politics.
