John Shattuck is a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a senior fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as the president and rector of Central European University in Budapest from 2009 to 2016, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor (1993–1998) and ambassador to the Czech Republic (1998–2000). Earlier, he was national staff counsel and Washington office director of the American Civil Liberties Union (1971–1984).
