Ramin Pejan is the deputy managing attorney of Earthjustice’s International Program. He is based in San Francisco, CA.

Ramin was born in Iran and grew up in Vancouver, Canada. He was an undergraduate at Duke University and received his law degree from American University, Washington College of Law. He also received an LLM from McGill University in Montreal, focusing on international environmental law and human rights law.

Prior to coming to Earthjustice, Ramin worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Environment Programme on the links between human rights and environmental issues.

From 2005–2010, Ramin worked at the New York City Law Department’s Environmental Law Division as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and then as Senior Counsel, where he was engaged in a wide variety of environmental litigation, advocacy, counseling and compliance work in areas of federal and state law.

From 2010–2012, Ramin worked in Bushbuckridge, South Africa, as legal counsel for the Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD), a nonprofit focusing on water resource management issues in rural South Africa.