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Thor Halvorssen
| President The Human Rights Foundation New York, NY Thor Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to defending human rights and promoting liberal democracy in the Americas. A lifelong civil liberties and civil rights advocate, Mr. Halvorssen is First Amendment Scholar at the Commonwealth Foundation a free-market think tank. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Armando Valladares Foundation, the Advisory Board of the Charter School Advocacy Program, and the Society of Fellows of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. He is the founder of the Moving Pictures Institute and is currently attached to the production of several feature films and documentaries. Mr. Halvorssen was the first Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a free speech group he headed from its founding in 1999 until he stepped down in 2004. He has lectured at universities across the country on matters of liberty and his opinions and views have appeared in numerous venues including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, National Public Radio, TIME, National Journal, as well as television outlets such as Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity & Colmes," MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews," HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," CNN, and many others. He is a contributing author to several books in print. Mr. Halvorssen graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with concurrent undergraduate and graduate degrees in Political Science and History. He lives in New York. |
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