Ambassador Mark P. Lagon is the Chief Policy Officer of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and also Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He’s Senior Fellow at the Trinity Forum. He is a leading authority and practitioner on human rights as former President of Freedom House, and on human trafficking and migration, having served as U.S. Ambassador-At-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the Department of State; as Executive Director and CEO of Polaris, a leading U.S. nonprofit on human trafficking operating the main hotline for the U.S. Government; and as founding member of the board of the Global Business Coalition Against Human Trafficking. Follow Ambassador Lagon on Twitter @MarkLagon.
Explore some of Ambassador Lagon’s recent commentary:
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Pandemic Response: Leveraging Multilateral Assets with U.S. Financial Diplomacy — Stimson Center, 6/9/21
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Here’s How Companies Should Prepare for New Human Rights Regulations — GreenBiz, 4/13/2021
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Online Event: The Shadow Pandemic: How COVID-19 Erodes the Rights of Women and Girls — Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1/21/21
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Why Inclusion Is Important for U.S. Foreign Policy — Foreign Policy, 10/30/20
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Revitalizing Human Trafficking Policy Twenty Years In — Council on Foreign Relations, 10/21/20
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Democracy vs. Autocracy: Who Has the Right Stuff? — The American Interest, 8/19/20
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Do Democracies Prevail? — RealClearBooks, 7/20/20
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Five Global Health Priorities for the Next President — The American Interest, 7/20/20
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Health Diplomacy in Africa: Competition and Opportunity — Lawfare, 6/7/20
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Loving Your Neighbor in a Pandemic — The Trinity Forum, 4/8/20
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Ending Female Genital Mutilation — Think Global Health, 4/8/20
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Is a New Kirkpatrick Doctrine the Answer? — The American Interest, 3/14/20
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How to Tackle Global Problems in an Age of Populism — Think Global Health, 2/6/20
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Fighting HIV in Young Women Through Economic Empowerment — Council on Foreign Relations, 9/12/19
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In Fragile States, Disease Outbreaks Don’t Stay Local for Long – Foreign Policy, 7/22/19
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Clarity, Consensus, and Corporate Action on Human Trafficking – GBCAT, 1/8/19
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Can Nikki Haley Deliver One Last Time? – Foreign Policy, 10/18/18
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The Fight Against Human Trafficking Is Too Important for Trump and Pompeo to Ignore – Foreign Policy, 5/30/18
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It’s Time for the United States to Grade the U.N. and Other International Organizations – Foreign Policy, 10/5/17