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John Kamm CV
John Kamm
is an American businessman and human rights campaigner active in China
since 1972. He is the founder and chairman of The Dui Hua Foundation, based in San
Francisco with an office in Hong Kong. Kamm was awarded the Department of
Commerce’s Best Global Practices Award by President Bill Clinton in 1997 and the
Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights by President George W. Bush in 2001. In
September 2004, Kamm received a MacArthur
Fellowship for “designing and
implementing an
original approach to freeing prisoners of conscience in China.”
Kamm
is the first and to date only businessman to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship,
Since his first intervention on behalf of a Chinese prisoner in May 1990, Kamm has made
more than 100 trips to China to engage the government in a dialogue on human rights,
focusing on the treatment of prisoners and conditions in prisons. He has made 13 visits to
Chinese places of detention. Kamm and Dui Hua have submitted requests for information
on more than 6,000 prisoners and have helped hundreds gain early release and better
treatment. In the words of
The New York Times,
“No other person or organization in the
world, including the State Department, has helped more Chinese prisoners.”
Dui Hua concentrates its efforts on encouraging transparency, accountability, and the
humanitarian treatment of at risk detainees, including political and religious prisoners,
juvenile offenders, those facing the death penalty, and women in prison. Under his
direction, Dui Hua
has held five expert exchanges with China’s Supreme Court on
juvenile justice reform. In addition to advising the US-China human rights dialogues, Dui
Hua has helped many of the other bilateral rights dialogues and consultations between
China and western countries. Dui Hua has had special consultative status with the
Economic and Social Committee (ECOSOC) of United Nations since 2005. The status
was renewed in 2010.
John Kamm received a B.A. (1972) from Princeton University and an M.A. (1975) from
Harvard University. He was the Hong Kong correspondent and representative of the
National Council for US-China Trade (1975-1981) and President of the American
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong in 1990. He managed Occidental Chemical
Company’s
business in
China and the Far East from 1981 to 1991.
November 2018