Robert Carmona-Borjas

Robert Carmona-Borjas is a Venezuelan-born American lawyer, university professor, author, and advocate for democracy, human rights, and institutional integrity. Trained in law, national security, military affairs, and governance, he has devoted much of his public life to exposing corruption not merely as an administrative offence, but as a deeper form of institutional decay: a condition that disfigures the State, weakens the rule of law, and diminishes human dignity. Following the political rupture of April 2002 in Venezuela, he was forced into exile in the United States, the country that later also became his own. There he continued the civic, academic, and humanitarian work that had already defined his life. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Arcadia Foundation, a non-profit organisation established in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the defence of democracy, transparency, fundamental freedoms, and the protection of vulnerable persons affected by persecution, forced migration, corruption, and impunity. His work through Arcadia Foundation has joined public denunciation with practical service: civic education, institutional analysis, humanitarian assistance, support for asylum seekers and migrants, and advocacy on behalf of victims whose voices are too often lost inside the machinery of power. As an author, he has written on politics, human rights, migration, and international justice. In recent years, he has also become a recognised voice in the scrutiny of ethical and institutional failures within the International Criminal Court in relation to the Venezuela I Situation. Carmona-Borjas’s life joins exile, teaching, legal discipline, and civic resistance into a single vocation: the defence of law as an instrument of truth, public responsibility, and human freedom.