Larry Olomofe is the former deputy head as well as advisor for combatting racism and xenophobia/training coordinator in the OSCE ODIHR’s Tolerance and non-discrimination department. He ran the portfolio on racism and xenophobia, providing advice to various governments on issues such as racism and anti-racism, non-discrimination, xenophobia, intolerance against Christians, hate incidents and hate crimes across the OSCE region. He also designed, managed, and coordinated the ODIHR’s Training Against Hate Crimes for Law Enforcement (TAHCLE) their flagship training/capacity-building programme for law enforcement in the OSCE region. Additionally, he oversaw trainings for prosecutors, judges, and civil society organizations on responding to and prevention of hate crimes and European and domestic anti-discrimination law, as well as ODIHR and OSCE field offices’ staff, human rights commissions and ombuds institutions. During his professional career, Larry Olomofe has conducted trainings, lectures, and a variety of workshop/conference contributions in over forty (40) countries.
Prior to his OSCE work, Larry Olomofe was employed as the Human Rights Trainer/Director at the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) in Budapest, Hungary, and was an associate profession offering courses on nationalism, critical race theory, social and political theories and philosophy, cultural studies and international human rights law and structures at a variety of Hungarian universities, including the university of San Francisco (Budapest Programme).
