The Human Rights Research and Practice Group presents

Professor Maria Green “Human Rights and Development”

Friday, April 13, 2018 SGISD Library Conference Room

Professor Maria Greenʼs work focuses on human rights and development, with an emphasis on economic, social and cultural rights and on practical implementation of human rights standards as part of development or anti- poverty policy and practice. She also writes and teaches on issues relating to law, literature and human rights. From 2003-2011 Maria taught at Brandeis Universityʼs Heller School for Social Policy and Management in the Graduate Programs on Sustainable International Development. In 2012-2013, she was at Lund University in Sweden as the holder of the Fulbright-Lund Distinguished Chair in International Human Rights. Mariaʼs publications include “What We Talk About When We Talk About Indicators: Current Approaches to Human Rights Measurement” (Human Rights Quarterly, 2001), and, with Susan Randolph, “Bringing Theory Into Practice: Operationalizing the Right to Development” (in The Right to Development in Practice: Studies for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Declaration, OHCHR, 2013). She has served as a consultant for various UN agencies on projects relating to human rights and poverty or development. Maria received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her M.A. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard University.