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Staff
Jorge Daniel Taillant
Executive Director
Jorge Daniel Taillant is currently Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Environment, a non-profit group in Argentina.He is responsible for overall institutional programming and strategy and heads CEDHA's work on International Financial Institutions, Global Governance, Corporate Accountability and Human Rights.
He leads CEDHA's team in promoting international development finance accountability promoting international justice frameworks and mechanisms to ensure human rights protection in corporate behavior. For this work, and particularly for CEDHA's strategic advocacy opposing two controversial pulp mills on the Argentine-Uruguayan border, CEDHA recently received the Sierra Club's Earth Care Award, its highest international distinction for innovative advocacy in protection of the global environment. He has worked with numerous national and international organizations, including the United Nations, OAS, World Bank, and the European Community. He has published numerous papers on human rights and environment linkages.
He is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley where he studied political science, and holds a Masters degree from Georgetown University in Political Economics/Latin American Studies. He has also studied political science at the Institute d'Études Politques in France, and economics at the United Nation's CEPAL in Chile .
Electronic Contact: jdtaillant@cedha.org.ar
