Ronan Farrow is an American journalist, human rights lawyer, and activist. Hailed as a child prodigy and boy genius, he went to Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts when he was 11 years old and earned a degree at 15. He studied law at Yale Law School as a 16-year old teen and soon went to Oxford University to study international relations on a Rhodes scholarship. As a UNICEF spokesperson for eight years, Farrow helped in fundraising and campaigning for the rights of women and children unwittingly involved in the Darfur region of Sudan. He served as a foreign policy advisor during the first term of US President Barack Obama. He established the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues after being appointed as a "Special Advisor" to Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State in the Obama administration.
As a journalist, Farrow has contributed to several mainstream newspapers, including "The Wall Street Journal," "The Washington Post," "The Los Angeles Times," and "The New York Times," on foreign policy matters and human rights. He has also hosted several TV shows and appeared as an expert commentator on various TV networks. A series of his stories in 2017 exposed the first allegations of sexual assault against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
Farrow has won several awards, chiefly for his journalistic efforts and as an activist, including the Refugees International McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award, the George Polk Award, the Cronkite Award, Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and the National Magazine Award. Time Magazine named him one of their 100 Most Influential People.
