032 | Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom | Knox Thames
Description
Knox Thames is an international human rights lawyer, advocate, and author who has dedicated his career to promoting human rights, defending religious minorities, and combatting persecution. Over his 20 years of service in the U.S. government, Knox held several key positions advocating for freedom of religion or belief, including at the State Department and two different U.S. government foreign policy commissions. Knox has deep experience regarding South/Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and U.S. foreign policy relating to human rights. Serving in the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, he has worked at the intersection of global affairs, religion, and human rights.
He is the author of Ending Persecution: Charting the Path to Global Religious Freedom (Notre Dame University Press, 2024).
The Middle East File podcast is a publication of the Religious Freedom Institute.
United States
