Eric P. Schwartz

President of Refugees International; Former U.S. Secretary of State for Population, Refugees & Migration

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Eric P. Schwartz Biography

Eric Schwartz has served as the President of Refugees International, a position he held from June 2017 until August of 2022.

Schwartz has had a three-decade career focused on humanitarian and human rights issues. Between 2009 and 2011, he served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration. As Assistant Secretary, he was credited with strengthening the State Department’s humanitarian advocacy around the world, initiating and implementing critical enhancements to the U.S. refugee resettlement program and raising the profile of global migration issues in U.S. foreign policy. He was the senior human rights and humanitarian official at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, managing humanitarian responses to crises in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

He also served as the UN Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery after the 2004 Asian Tsunami; as Washington Director of Asia Watch (now the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch); and Staff Consultant to the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, among other positions in the U.S. government, at the UN and in the non-profit sector.

Just prior to arriving at Refugees International, Schwartz served a six-year term as Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. During much of that period, he also served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and, ultimately, as the Commission’s vice-chair.

He holds a law degree from New York University School of Law, a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and a bachelor's degree with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/28/2024.

Eric P. Schwartz Videos

  • Eric P. Schwartz: Refugee Crises: Improving Lives, Protecting Rights ...
    Eric Schwartz, President of Refugees International and former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration, will join us to...
  • The 2017 Forum on Migration, Immigration, and Refugees
    The Joseph J. Sisco Memorial Forum featured a keynote address by former Humphrey School Dean Eric Schwartz, president of Refugees International, and...
  • How the US Can Respond to the Rohingya Crisis – Eric Schwartz ...
    Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in a matter of weeks. The UN has called the situation “a textbook example of...

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