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Bertrand Ramcharan | |
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| United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (acting) | |
| In office 19 August 2003 –30 July 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Sérgio Vieira de Mello |
| Succeeded by | Louise Arbour |
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| Born | 27 April 1943 [1] |
Bertrand G. Ramcharan (born 27 April 1943),is a Guyanese diplomat and former United Nations official who once held from 2011 to 2015 President of UPR Info, [3] an NGO working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review. He is also former chancellor of the University of Guyana,Senior Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies and currently visiting professor of international law in Lund University,Sweden. Ramcharan is the first holder of the HEI Swiss Chair of Human Rights at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies. He has a doctorate from the London School of Economics and is a barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
