Graeme Reid
Co-Chair, YES Project Legal & Human Rights Subcommittee
Graeme Reid, Co-Chair, YES Project Legal & Human Rights Subcommittee (he/him/his) is director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, is an expert on LGBT rights. He has conducted research, taught and published extensively on gender, sexuality, LGBT issues, and HIV/AIDS. Before joining Human Rights Watch in 2011, Graeme was the founding director of the Gay and Lesbian Archives of South Africa, a researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and a lecturer in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies at Yale University. An anthropologist by training, Reid received an master's from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam.