Richard Sollom

Richard Sollom is Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he directs public health research and human rights investigations in areas of armed conflict. Sollom has more than 15 years of experience investigating mass atrocities in some of the world’s most war-torn countries including Bosnia, Burma, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Kosovo, Nepal, Rwanda, Somalia and Zimbabwe.

Prior to his work with PHR, Sollom was a U.N. protection officer during the 1994 refugee crisis in the Great Lakes region and was a humanitarian affairs officer during the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Somalia. He also served among the first international human rights monitors deployed to Haiti following the 1991 coup. After graduating from Macalester College, Sollom received a Fulbright teaching fellowship to France and then volunteered for the U.S. Peace Corps in Hungary and Estonia. He holds advanced degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and from the Harvard School of Public Health.