Gasser Abdel-Razek is a human rights activist who has been involved with human rights movements in Egypt and the Arab world for the past 17 years. He was one of the founders of the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre in 1999. He worked as advocacy director of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, acting director for regional relations at Human Rights Watch and Middle East media officer at Oxfam GB. He is currently the country director of Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) in Cairo, Egypt.