Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is President of the International Peace Institute and Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania.  He was the UN human rights chief from 2014-2018.  In 2019, he was elected to The Elders, an independent group of global leaders, founded by Nelson Mandela.  He served twice as Jordan’s ambassador to the United Nations (in New York) and once as Jordan’s ambassador to the United States.  In January 2014, he was president of the UN Security Council and earlier, in 2002, was the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (until 2005).  He also served as a UN civilian peacekeeper with UNPROFOR (from 1994-1996). He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins and Cambridge universities.