Saul Takahashi - IISRA Treasurer

(IISRA Treasurer)

Saul J. Takahashi is Professor of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Osaka Jogakuin University in Osaka, Japan. He is an international human rights and humanitarian lawyer, and his main research interests include human rights in Palestine, and Islamophobia in Japan, Europe, and the United States. Saul started his career working with refugees in Amnesty International in Japan and then in London, after which he moved to the UN, where he served as Deputy Head of Office of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Occupied Palestine from March 2009 to May 2014. Saul holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of Essex, and also serves as Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Hashim Sani Centre for Palestine Studies, University Malaya, and as an Expert of the Global Network on the Question of Palestine. Saul is the author of several books in English and in Japanese, including Civil and Political Rights in Japan: a Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley (Routledge, ed.), Human Rights and Drug Control: the False Dichotomy (Hart Publishing), and The Palestinian People Continue to Suffer: Why the UN Can’t Solve the Problem (Japanese, Gendai Jinbun-sha).