Alex Neve is a visiting and adjunct professor in international human rights law at the University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, and a Senior Fellow with the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He currently serves as a Member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela and was Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada from 2000 - 2020. He took part in over forty human rights research and advocacy delegations throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, Guantánamo Bay and, closer to home, First Nations communities in Canada.
He holds an LLB from Dalhousie University and a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. He has served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board, taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, and been affiliated with York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. Alex has also worked as a refugee lawyer in private practice and in a community legal aid clinic.
Alex has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada and served as a Trudeau Foundation Mentor. He is a recipient of a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and has received three honorary Doctorate of Laws degrees. Alex was the 2025 CBC Massey Lecturer, addressing the theme of “Universal: Renewing Human Rights in a Fractured World.”