(born November 18, 1963) is a human rights lawyer who founded the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and was Executive Director from 2004-2019.
Brian also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of Health and Human Rights: An International Journal at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He is an alumnus of Boston College High School'81, as well as an Ignatius Award winner.
He holds an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College and JD from Georgetown Law.
He is the recipient of the Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship from Harvard Law School the Brandeis International Fellowship in Human Rights, Intervention, and International Law and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Canisius College.
Brian has qualified as an expert witness on country conditions Haiti in over 40 cases in the U.S.
and Canada, appearing on behalf of both applicants and the U.S.