Miranda Sissons

Originally from Australia, Miranda Sissons is a long-time human rights defender. She has 20-plus years’ experience in human rights work, and is currently Senior Director of Human Rights Policy at Meta Platforms. 

A former diplomat, Sissons has worked at Human Rights Watch, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and the social impact agency Purpose. She has consulted for the UN Human Rights Office. She has extensive on the ground experience with local and global organizations Timor Leste, Israel Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and elsewhere. 

She has published on topics ranging from international criminal law and the law of armed conflict to transitional justice and sexual and reproductive rights. She has co-led initiatives that have won multiple Cannes and Webby awards.

Sissons has also taught human rights/transitional justice at NYU and the City University of New York. She studied at the University of Melbourne, was a Fulbright scholar at Yale, and recently studied organizational leadership at the Said School of Business at Oxford.  She speaks Arabic, German and English. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley.