Flávia Piovesan is a Commissioner for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and a professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP). She has been a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University (DRCLAS); Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School (1995 and 2000). She was also a human rights fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, at the University of Oxford in 2005, and has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) on numerous occasions. Flavia Piovesan is a former member of the United Nations High Level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development, and the Organization of American States’ Working Group on the monitoring of the Protocol of San Salvador on social, economic and cultural rights. In 2016, she was appointed Special Secretary for Human Rights in Brazil and also served as the country’s President of the National Commission for the Eradication of Forced Labor (2016-2018).