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Paul Hunt
Human Rights Commission / Te Kāhui Tika Tangata
Chief human rights commissioner
- Appointed 2019.
- Previously advisor to WHO assistant director-general on human rights.
- Independent expert on the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1999-2002), and UN special rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health (2002-2008).
- Appointed senior lecturer at Waikato University in 1992, and in 2000 professor at Essex University.
- Studied law at Cambridge University and Waikato University.
- Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Nordic School of Public Health in 2008.
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