LONDON (AN) — Amnesty International named Agnès Callamard as its new secretary general on Monday, tapping a veteran human rights investigator to lead a 60-year-old organization operating in more than 70 nations.
The London-based organization said her four-year appointment was effective immediately. A French political scientist and human rights expert who oversaw the United Nations investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Callamard now leads a human rights-oriented NGO with 10 million supporters.
