Omar Gómez Trejo received his law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and holds a Master's Degree from FLACSO. He worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for 12 years in Mexico and Central America. He was the Executive Secretary of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) for the Ayotzinapa case (2015-2016). He was the lead Prosecutor of the Special Unit for the Investigation and Litigation of the Ayotzinapa case at Mexico's Attorney General Office from June 2019 to September 2022. Most recently, he was a visiting scholar at the Berkeley Law Human Rights Center through the Practitioners at Risk program. Gómez Trejo is working at CLACS on our forthcoming podcast program.
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Visiting Scholar
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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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