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Thor Leonardo Halvorssen Mendoza (born 1976〔)—commonly known as Thor Halvorssen—is a Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer with contributions in the field of public policy, public interest advocacy, individual rights and civil liberties, and pro-democracy advocacy. ''The New York Times'' described Halvorssen in an August 2007 profile as a maverick "who champions the underdog and the powerless."〔 In a 2013 profile Buzzfeed publishes that Halvorssen "possesses a burning desire to right the countless injustices of this world and he has committed himself to this task with an intensity to match that of the dictatorship he has placed in his sights. And he does not care if those injustices are being committed by the 'right-wing' or 'left-wing' regimes." Halvorssen is founder of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an annual gathering described by ''The Economist'' as a "spectacular human-rights festival ... on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum". Halvorssen is president of the Human Rights Foundation, an organization devoted to global human rights and freedom. He is the Patron of the Czech-based Children's Peace Movement, On Own Feet, and founder of the Moving Picture Institute.〔(Thor Halvorssen. ) Human Rights Foundation. Retrieved on December 1, 2006.〕 Halvorssen bought the traditionally leftist Norwegian news magazine ''Ny Tid'' in May 2010.〔(Global Solidarity in Action: New owners of Ny Tid ) - Ny Tid International〕 He is currently producing the film adaptation of Robert Heinlein's ''The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'' with Bryan Singer. Halvorssen's opinions have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The Washington Post'', National Public Radio, ''Time'' magazine, ''The Nation'' and ''National Journal'', and he has appeared on television outlets such as al-Jazeera, BBC News, Fox News Channel’s ''The O'Reilly Factor'' and ''Hannity & Colmes'', MSNBC’s ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'', CNN, and HBO. Thor Halvorssen was a speaker at TEDx at the University of Pennsylvania in October 2010. ==Background== Halvorssen was born in Venezuela to Hilda Mendoza, a descendant and a relative, respectively, of Venezuela's first two presidents Cristóbal Mendoza and Simón Bolívar. His father is Thor Halvorssen Hellum, who served as a Venezuelan Ambassador for anti-Narcotic Affairs in the administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez and as special overseas investigator of a Venezuelan Senate Commission. His family was prosperous and on his father's side he is the grandson of Øystein Halvorssen, the Norwegian king’s consul who "built a family dynasty as the Venezuelan representative for corporations including Dunlop, Alfa Laval and Ericsson."〔Strausbaugh, John (August 19, 2007). ("A Maverick Mogul, Proudly Politically Incorrect" ). ''New York Times''. (Archived by WebCite (here. ))〕 His cousin is Leopoldo Lopez.〔Halvorssen, Thor (March 14, 2012). ("Hugo Chavez channels the dead". ) ''Pittsburgh Post Gazette''〕 Halvorssen attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, with concurrent undergraduate and graduate degrees in Political Science and History. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thor Halvorssen Mendoza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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