Ronan Farrow (born Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow; December 19, 1987) is an American human-rights activist, journalist, lawyer and government official. He served in the Obama Administration, first "overseeing the U.S. Government's relationships with civil society" in Afghanistan and Pakistan and subsequently as the first director of the State Department Office of Global Youth Issues under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Farrow's writings have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and other publications, focused primarily on human rights issues in the Horn of Africa.