Peter Arvo is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center. He is a scholar of legal anthropology specializing in human rights and international law. Arvo is the supervising attorney with the Office of Tibet in Washington, DC. Previously, he was a member of Oxford University’s postgraduate consulting group.

Arvo has worked as a research fellow with the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamshala, India, where he conducted research on Tibetan civics and democracy curricula in Tibetan settlement schools. Arvo’s research focuses on the emerging fields of Buddhism and democracy along with Buddhism and law.

Arvo holds a JD from Albany Law School, a master of philosophy in Tibetan and Himalayan studies from the University of Oxford, and bachelor’s degrees in Asian studies and philosophy from City College of New York. In law school, Arvo was awarded the Clinical Legal Education Association Outstanding Externship Award for his humanitarian work with the Office of Tibet.