Larry Cox (Amnesty International)
American activist
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Larry Cox (born 1945)[1] is the former executive director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA).
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Larry Cox at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, 2010 | |
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) |
| Occupations | Co-Director, Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary (New York City) |
Cox was born in Lakewood, Ohio. He graduated from Avon Lake High School in Avon Lake, Ohio in 1963.
He graduated from Mount Union College with a B.A. in history.[1] He first joined AIUSA in 1976 as a press officer, going on to become communications director and deputy executive director,[2] and director of AIUSA's program campaigning against the death penalty. In 1985 he became deputy secretary general at the Amnesty International General Secretariat based in London.[1]
In 1990 he left Amnesty to become executive director of the Rainforest Foundation,[2][3] a position he held until 1995 when he was appointed senior program officer at the Ford Foundation.[1] He returned to AIUSA as executive director in 2006,[4] continuing in the role until 2011.[5] Since November 2013, he has served as Co-Director of Kairos: The Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary (New York City).[6]