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About Gary Haugen
Gary A. Haugen serves as president and CEO of International Justice Mission, where he leads the organization’s multinational staff in the most serious confrontation of slavery in the past 150 years.
Haugen’s proposal – that the poor are entitled to the protection of their own countries’ laws – is transforming traditional approaches to international human rights work and has awakened Christians to their responsibility to seek justice on behalf of the vulnerable. An international speaker and guest lecturer, Haugen brings the message of today’s urgent human rights crises to universities, the global aid community and the Christian Church, and has served as a frequent witness before the U.S. Congress on slavery and violent oppression.
Haugen received a B.A. in social studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago, cum laude, where he was the Ford Foundation Scholar in international law.
Before founding International Justice Mission in 1997, Haugen served as a senior trial attorney with the Police Misconduct Task Force of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1994, Haugen was detailed from the U.S. Department of Justice to the United Nations’ Center for Human Rights, where he served as officer-in-charge of the U.N.’s genocide investigation in Rwanda. In this position, he directed an international team of lawyers, criminal prosecutors, law enforcement officers and forensics experts in the gathering of evidence against the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
Haugen is the 2007 recipient of Prison Fellowship’s annual William Wilberforce Award, recognizing an individual who has made a difference in the face of formidable societal problems and injustices, as well as the 2007 recipient of Sojourners’ Joseph Award, honoring an individual who has used a position of influence to overcome poverty and advance justice.
He has authored numerous books and articles in addition to Just Courage, including Good News About Injustice, an exploration of God’s call to justice, and Terrify No More, a true story of the daring rescue of young children from Cambodian brothels. Haugen currently serves on the Human Rights Leadership Coalition and on the board of the overseers of the Berkeley Journal of International Law.
Haugen and the work of IJM have been featured by TODAY, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, National Public Radio, Forbes magazine, The Washington Post and The New York Times, among many other outlets.
Haugen currently resides in the Washington, D.C., area with his family.
