Nils Muižnieks
Nils Muižnieks | |
|---|---|
| Commissioner for Human Rights | |
| In office 1 April 2012 – 1 April 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas Hammarberg |
| Succeeded by | Dunja Mijatović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 January 1964 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Spouse | Andra Fedder |
| Education | Princeton University (BA, MA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
Nils Muižnieks (born 31 January 1964 in the United States) is a Latvian-American human rights activist and political scientist. He had served as the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights between 2012 and 2018, succeeding Thomas Hammarberg (2006–2012) and Álvaro Gil-Robles (1999–2006).