Thor Halvorssen Mendoza
| Thor Halvorssen Mendoza | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza March 9, 1976 Venezuela |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Organization |
Human Rights Foundation (Founder and CEO) Oslo Freedom Forum (Founder) |
Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza (born March 9, 1976), commonly known as Thor Halvorssen, is a Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer with contributions in the fields of public policy, public interest advocacy, individual rights and civil liberties, and pro-democracy advocacy. Halvorssen is founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering described by The Economist as a "spectacular human-rights festival ... on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum". Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to global human rights and freedom. He is the Patron of the Czech-based Children's Peace Movement, On Own Feet, and founder of the Moving Picture Institute. Halvorssen bought the traditionally leftist Norwegian news magazine Ny Tid in May 2010.
He is currently producing the film adaptation of Robert Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress with Bryan Singer.
Halvorssen's opinions have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, Time magazine, The Nation and National Journal, and he has appeared on television outlets such as al-Jazeera, BBC News,Fox News Channel’s The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, CNN, and HBO. Thor Halvorssen was a speaker at TEDx at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2010.
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