Antoine Bernard is a recognized expert and practitioner of human rights, international justice and NGOs. He is the Director of Advocacy and Assistance of Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Antoine is also co-director of the Master on human rights and humanitarian action at the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) where he has been teaching since its launch in 2010. He is the General Secretary of La Maison des Femmes de Saint Denis and board member of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. Previously Director General of the International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), an associate researcher at the Institut des hautes études sur la justice (IHEJ), also a member of the jury of the Simone Veil Prize of the French Republic for gender equality and of the Steering Committee of the World Movement for Democracy.