Today, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) announced the appointment of Paul O’Brien as its new Executive Director, following an extensive global search that led the Board of Directors to unanimously pick O’Brien to assume the leadership of AIUSA.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has killed more than 2.4 million people, precipitated the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression, caused widespread unemployment, derailed progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, and left scars that will take many years to heal.