Jack Mayerhofer

Jack Mayerhofer is the Senior Program Officer for Global Coalitions working on the Advocacy team at Scholars at Risk. In this role, Jack coordinates with regional coalitions of academics and human rights practitioners for advancing the protection and promotion of academic freedom around the world including in Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining SAR, Jack was Deputy Executive Director at the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities where he worked with government and civil society partners to strengthen human rights policymaking, particularly in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Jack earned a Masters of Science in Global Affairs from Rutgers University and a Bachelors of Science in French and Applied Linguistics from Penn State University. Jack’s research interests include the analysis of anti-democratic efforts, such as attacks on academic freedom, and their relationship to the risk of political violence.