The guest on this week’s 4-Quarter Lives is Ambassador Luis Gallegos who, at 76, is as active and engaged as he has ever been in his long and extremely distinguished career. He is advocating for the adoption, by the United Nations, of an international Convention for the Rights of Older People. This follows his role as president of the U.N. committee that drafted the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the 21st century. He was also an elected member on the U.N.’s Committee on the Convention Against Torture, president of the advisory committee of the Institute of Public Policy & Disability, and former board member of Special Olympics International. During 2022 he was a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, which is where he and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox first met.
Luis Gallegos: Pushing to Protect Q4
Luis Gallegos: Pushing to Protect Q4
Luis Gallegos: Pushing to Protect Q4
The guest on this week’s 4-Quarter Lives is Ambassador Luis Gallegos who, at 76, is as active and engaged as he has ever been in his long and extremely distinguished career. He is advocating for the adoption, by the United Nations, of an international Convention for the Rights of Older People. This follows his role as president of the U.N. committee that drafted the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first human rights treaty of the 21st century. He was also an elected member on the U.N.’s Committee on the Convention Against Torture, president of the advisory committee of the Institute of Public Policy & Disability, and former board member of Special Olympics International. During 2022 he was a Fellow of Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, which is where he and Avivah Wittenberg-Cox first met.