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Jaykumar Menon is an international human rights lawyer and social entrepreneur. His research, teaching, and practice focus on creative approaches to realizing basic human rights for a billion or more people. He has held academic positions at Harvard and McGill. He has been named one of America’s 50 Greatest Disruptors by Newsweek, and won the Brown University Alumni Association’s highest award, given to one graduate annually.
Jaykumar is a founder and the chair of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, which seeks to create a world of medicine for all. He is also a founder of The India Nutrition Initiative, which is developing “DFS”, salt double-fortified with iron and iodine, to help address the world’s the most widespread form of malnutrition, iron deficiency, which afflicts 2 billion people, disproportionately women and children. DFS has been included in over 1 billion meals, It has reduced iron deficiency at scale, per independent studies. Previously, he led the international development program at the X PRIZE Foundation, an innovation group dedicated to achieving "radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity." As a human rights lawyer at the New York City-based Center for Constitutional Rights, he won a string of victories in high profile cases. His work includes representing student leaders of Tiananmen Square against the ex-Premier of China, helping win a $4 billion judgment on behalf of victims of the Bosnian genocide, freeing a man from death row in Indiana, helping represent the family of Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa against Royal Dutch Shell, and hunting through the prisons of New York for the real killer to help free an innocent man (David Wong) serving life for murder, as the 15th lawyer to take up the case. As a scholar, he has written articles in top international human rights law journals and reference books. He has also co-founded a venture-funded tech company with seven-figure revenues, and been a strategy consultant at McKinsey. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a finalist for the Tallberg Global Leadership Prize from Sweden. .Jaykumar holds a JD and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, and completed a BA degree and one year of medical school at Brown. Through his creative and strategic approach, he hopes to bring about large-scale social change in the communities he works with. LinkedIn | Email |
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