Irene Khan

Irene Khan is responsible for developing and co-ordinating strategies to promote and protect human rights. She builds and maintains high-level external relations, representing the movement and its concerns to governments, inter-governmental organisations, the world’s media and the general public. She takes a leading role in decision-making in crisis situations.

The Secretary General guides the work of worldwide sections and structures through international meetings, while co-ordinating the plans of the International Secretariat. She has overall responsibility - through senior managers - for implementing the IEC's strategies, work plans and budgets. She also participates in the movement's fundraising activities.