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Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America
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David Holiday is the senior policy analyst on Latin America at the Open Society Policy Center (OSPC), where he engages Congress on issues such as organized crime and drug policy initiatives.
Throughout his career, Holiday has focused on human rights concerns around the world, primarily in Latin America. Prior to joining OSPC, Holiday worked in Uzbekistan as the country representative for Counterpart International and in Afghanistan where he worked for the senior economic advisor to the president in support of the country’s National Development Strategy.
Holiday spent nearly 20 years addressing civil society, human rights, and peace concerns in Central America. Before working in Central Asia, Holiday ran a project in El Salvador that supported civil society advocacy as well as transparency initiatives with the legislature and local governments. Holiday also worked for a USAID-funded project in support of civic advocacy organizations in the aftermath of the Guatemalan peace accords. During his tenure in El Salvador, he became the regional representative for Human Rights Watch, authoring or contributing to numerous human rights reports on El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua throughout the 1990s.
Holiday has published articles and book chapters in both academic and policy journals on the role of the United Nations, human rights, civil society, and peace processes in Central America. He holds an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, and has lectured at several universities including Princeton, Columbia, New York University, Smith, and Middlebury.
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