Claudia Escobar
Doctor Claudia Escobar is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. She is a former magistrate of the Court of Appeals of Guatemala. Escobar is recognized internationally as a corruption fighter and was selected as one of the members of the International Council of Transparency International.
In June 2017, she received the “Democracy Award” for her commitment to fighting impunity and corruption. Recently, she was honored by the Harvard Women's Law Association and Harvard Law in the exhibition “Women inspiring change.”
Escobar obtained her Ph.D. at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and her law degree at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. She is also affiliated with Georgetown, where she was elected as a Centennial Fellow in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, and was a fellow at Harvard University, becoming the first Central American to be awarded a fellowship (2015 – 2016) at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.