Peter Bouckaert

Peter Bouckaert
Born
Pellenberg, Belgium
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Stanford University Law School
Known forHuman Rights advocacy

Peter Bouckaert is a human rights activist who served as emergency director for Human Rights Watch from 1997 until 2017. He has investigated Human Rights abuses in Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and the Central African Republic. He now works for Blue Ventures, a marine conservation group.

His is the subject of the 2014 documentary E-Team, a documentary about the atrocities in Syria and Libya

He has been based in Madagascar since 2019, where he manages a farming project in Andasibe, Moramanga.