Nathaniel Raymond

Nathaniel Raymond is Director of PHR's Campaign Against Torture. He investigates the role of health professionals in current US national security interrogation policy, and in this role he works closely with journalists and members of Congress, among others. From November 2002 to April 2006, Raymond served in a variety of roles at Oxfam America. From 2004 until his departure, he served as Communications Advisor for Humanitarian Response at Oxfam America. With Oxfam, Raymond was frequently deployed to Ethiopia, including to the Eritrean border, the border with Sudan, and the border regions with Kenya as part of Oxfam’s response to mass killing, conflict and famine. He served as part of the Oxfam responses to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan by deployment to Amman, Jordan and Kabul, Afghanistan. After the December 2004 tsunami, Raymond was tasked to the Oxfam International team in Sri Lanka, working there for two months in communications and policy. Raymond was later promoted to interim Communications Coordinator for Oxfam International’s tsunami response, overseeing communications, policy and information work for all seven countries where Oxfam was responding to the disaster with a $250 million dollar humanitarian operation. He later supported inter-agency efforts to coordinate NGO activity with the UN, World Bank and other organizations. In 2005, he was part of Oxfam’s first team deployed after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, later briefing senior members of Congress in Washington. Before joining Oxfam in 2002, Raymond was Senior Communications Associate at PHR, having joined PHR as a Communications Assistant in 1999. Raymond played pivotal roles in the attempt to bring the US onboard the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, promoting PHR’s work in conflict and forensic investigations, and in coordinating parts of the strategy to expose the Dasht-e-Leili mass grave in Northern Afghanistan, which resulted in a cover story on the grave in Newsweek in August, 2002. He has lectured on humanitarian and human rights issues, particularly famine and conflict on the Horn of Africa, at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Harvard University, the American Red Cross, the BU School of Public Health, American University School of Foreign Service, Dalhousie University, and the University of Southern Florida. Raymond was a frequent commentator on humanitarian operations during conflict on NPR’s The Connection.