Ronan Farrow

Ronan Farrow is an activist, journalist, lawyer and former adviser to the U.S. government. Ronan Farrow is the son of actress Mia Farrow and film director Woody Allen. Farrow was born in New York, with actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen. It was named after baseball player Satchel Paige and his maternal grandmother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan. It was given the name "Farrow" to avoid a family with "a son named Allen between two Previns six piglets." Ronan Farrow attended Bard College at Simon's Rock and graduated at age 15. In 2009, following the postponement of the entry for several years, graduated from Yale Law School, and later became a member of the Bar of New York.

Ronan Farrow Career

From 2001 to 2009, Ronan Farrow Farrow was a spokesperson for UNICEF for Youth, which acts as an "advocate" for children and women caught in the current crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan and assistance in fundraising and deal groups affiliated to the United Nations in the United States. During this time, he also made joint trips to the Darfur region in Sudan, with her mother, actress Mia Farrow, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. Later, he called for the protection of refugees from Darfur. After his experience in Sudan, Farrow joined the Genocide Intervention Network, a group founded by Swarthmore College students to advocate for participation in the armed conflict in Darfur group.

During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow internship at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel to the Committee of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs focuses on international law of human rights. In 2009 Farrow joined the Obama administration with his appointment as Special Advisor for Humanitarian Affairs and NGOs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was part of a team of officials employed by the veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, for Farrow who had previously worked as a speechwriter. Over the next two years, Farrow was responsible for "overseeing relations with the U.S. Government civil society and non-state actors" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.


In 2011, Ronan Farrow was appointed Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Global Youth Affairs and Director, Office of Global Youth Affairs, Department of State. The creation of the office was the result of a working group for several years appointed by Clinton to review the economic and social policies of the United States on youth for which Farrow chaired the working group lead from 2010. Farrow's appointment and the creation of the office were announced by Clinton as part of a new focus on youth after the revolutions of the Arab Spring. Farrow was responsible for U.S. policy youth and programming aimed towards "empowering young people as economic actors and civilians." Farrow concluded his term as Special Counsel in 2012, with its policies and programs that continue under his successor. After leaving the government, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

 
Ronan Farrow has written essays, opinion pieces and other pieces for The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other periodicals. In October 2013 MSNBC announced that Farrow would host a weekday one-hour show from early 2014. Also that month, Penguin Press acquired the book Farrow, Pandora's Box: How American Military Aid Creates enemies of the United States, the publication schedule for 2015.
Ronan Farrow  Recognition

Ronan Farrow has been named by New York "New Activist" of the year and included in your list of "to the point of changing their world" for 2009; listed as "up-and-coming politician" of 2011 and the No. of Harper's Bazaar Law and Policy on "30 Under 30" list of most influential people in 2012 Forbes magazine. In his 2013 retrospective of men born in its 80 years of publication, Esquire named him man of the year of his birth.

Farrow was awarded the Humanitarian Refugees International McCall-Pierpaoli in 2008 for "extraordinary service to refugees and displaced persons." He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Dominican University of California in 2012.

Ronan Farrow Personal life

Ronan Farrow is estranged from his father, Woody Allen. In 2011, said: "He's my father married to my sister That makes me his son and his brother-in-law that's a moral transgression..." On June 12 2012, he tweeted, "Happy Father's Day or as they call it in my family, the day-in-law happy."

Asked about speculation that longstanding Ronan Farrow is the son of the ex-husband of Mia Farrow, Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow said in a 2013 Vanity Fair article that Sinatra could "possibly" the father of Ronan. After the complaint was widespread in the media, Ronan Farrow tweeted humorously October 2, 2013, "Listen, we're all possibly son of Frank Sinatra." In a February 7, 2014 Editorial, wrote in the New York Times, Allen publicly expressed his own uncertainty, writing, "Is my child like Mia suggests, Frank Sinatra?" No DNA testing has been carried out to determine the paternity of Ronan Farrow.