Mila Rosenthal

Dr. Mila Rosenthal is an advocate and campaigner whose professional work and academic interest spans international human rights, human development, and climate justice. She is the Managing Director and co-founder of Planet Reimagined, a nonprofit creative incubator using applied research for real-world action, channeling cultural energy into civic power. Previously, Dr Rosenthal played a lead role in the global public campaign to launch and popularize the Sustainable Development Goals as head of Communications and Advocacy at the United Nations Development Programme. 

In other roles, Dr Rosenthal served as the Executive Director of the International Science Reserve at the New York Academy of Sciences, connecting scientists with communities to respond to global climate and health disasters. As Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, she led research and advocacy on international and domestic human rights abuses. Dr Rosenthal was also a founding Board member of the Business & Human Rights Centre, tracking the human rights abuses and advances of companies around the world. 

Dr. Rosenthal had the privilege to work in several countries in Africa, and before that in Southeast Asia, including as part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia. In Vietnam, the women factory workers who generously shared their lives and work with Dr Rosenthal for two years gave her the research basis for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics; and cemented her commitment to working with and on behalf of people and communities to claim their human rights.

Courses taught:

• Advocacy for Socio-Economic Rights
• Mobilization for Policy Change