Javier Urizar is an International Associate at Perseus Strategies. Prior to joining the firm, Javier served as Officer for the Legal and Business and Human Rights Programmes at the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR), where he focused on the legal protection of human rights defenders. He also served as co-chair of the Vuka! Strategic Litigation Action Team. Javier has also held roles at Be Just, the International Justice Mission, and as a pro bono constitutional lawyer in Guatemala. Javier holds a Masters Degree in Law from Columbia University (LLM’26), where he was also a Human Rights Fellow, LL.M. Pathways Fellow, staff editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and Board member of the Columbia Latin American Business Law Association. He received his degrees in law (J.D. equivalent), bachelor in legal and social sciences, and notary public from Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala, where he was a Fellow of DLA Piper’s “Global Scholarships Programme”. He is passionate about human rights, constitutional law, political philosophy, and, more recently, artificial intelligence.
