Lisa Besa

Chief Operating Officer
Joined Human Rights First in 2006

As Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Besa leads Finance & Administration, Human Resources, and Information Services departments to partner with and support program teams in achieving Human Rights Firsts mission. Lisa joined Human Rights First in 2006 as the Director of Information Services, served in 2007 as the Chief Information Officer, and currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer.

Before joining Human Rights First, Lisa held executive positions in Information Technology at Verizon and Accenture. At Verizon, she managed a team of over 200 analyst/programmers in offices across the US and internationally in the Dominican Republic and India that supported the Enterprise Sales and Marketing business unit. At Accenture, she was part of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) lines of business, specializing in business process and systems solutions for the complex sales and customer care needs of clients such as Telstra, Cablevision, AT&T, Qwest, and Pearson.

Lisa holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics from Kansas State University (1989) and a M.B.A. with a concentration in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin (1990).