Director

Ali Dayan Hasan

Date: May 9, 2019

Ali Dayan Hasan is the Executive Director of Huqooq-e-Pakistan, the European Union’s flagship Human Rights Capacity Building and Training Program for the country. He previously served as Human Rights Watch’s South Asia researcher since 2003 and has specialized expertise in Pakistan. Hasan is responsible for researching, authenticating and writing reports, briefing papers and news releases produced by Human Rights Watch on Pakistan. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Hasan was a senior editor at Pakistan’s premier independent, political news monthly magazine, Herald. During 2006 and 2007, Hasan was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Changing Character of War Programme at the University of Oxford. He has a B.A. from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree from St. Antony’s College, Oxford.