Mary E. McClymont is the executive director of Global Rights, an international human rights capacity-building organization based in Washington, D.C. that works side by side with local activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote and protect the rights of marginalized populations. She previously served as president and chief executive officer of InterAction, the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations.  She has also served in various executive positions at the Ford Foundation, including as vice president of the Peace and Social Justice Program.

In addition, Ms. McClymont has previously served as the national director for legalization of the Migration and Refugee Services, U.S. Catholic Conference; senior staff counsel, the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union; trial attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice; and assistant director for Corrections, National Street Law Institute, Georgetown University Law Center.  

While at the Ford Foundation, Ms. McClymont led a team of researchers who documented NGO law-related strategies to advance human rights globally. This work resulted in the publication of Many Roads to Justice: The Law-Related Work of Ford Foundation Grantees Around the World (2000).

Ms. McClymont has an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.