Patrick Ball

Patrick Ball, Ph.D., is the Director of the Human Rights Program at the Benetech Initiative which includes the Martus project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). Since 1991, Dr. Ball has designed information management systems and conducted statistical analysis for large-scale human rights data projects used by truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, tribunals and United Nations missions in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, South Africa, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Perú, Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone, and Chad.

Dr. Ball has received several awards for his work. In April 2005, the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented him with their Pioneer Award. Dr. Ball received the Eugene Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in June 2004. In August 2002, the Social Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association presented Dr. Ball with a Special Achievement Award.

Dr. Ball is currently involved in Benetech projects in Sri Lanka, Colombia, Burma, Liberia, Guatemala and in other countries around the world.

We've provided profiles of the following individuals at HRDAG:

Patrick Ball

Anna Berns

Kristen Cibelli

Miguel Cruz

Justin Fisher

Tamy Guberek

Daniel Guzmán

Jeff Klingner

Meghan Lynch

Nobuko Mizoguchi

Fritz Scheuren

Romesh Silva

Gary Shapiro

Herb Spirer

Ken Ward

Scott Weikart

Paul Zador

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