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At 15, he received a college degree from Bard, and at 16 was accepted to Yale Law School. At 21, he joined Mr. Holbrooke at the State Department, where he later became Hillary Rodham Clinton’s special adviser for global youth issues.
Feel bad about yourself yet? There’s more. In 2011, he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship, for which he studied international relations at Oxford University. The scholarship marked the beginning of his drift back into the public eye, decades after his parents’ well-documented breakup.
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From 2001 to 2009, he was a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth,[17] working on conflict-related issues in Nigeria, Angola, and Sudan[2] and assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations affiliated groups in the United States.[18][19] During this time, he also made joint trips to the Darfur region of Sudan with his mother, Mia Farrow, including media availabilities at UNICEF-run camps.[20] He subsequently appeared on MSNBC, ABC, and CNN advocating for the protection of Darfuri refugees.[2] Following on his experiences in Sudan, Farrow was affiliated with the Genocide Intervention Network,[21] a group founded by Swarthmore College students to advocate for armed involvement in the Darfur Conflict.
During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow worked at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and in the office of the chief counsel at the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, focusing on international human rights law.[2][22][23]
In 2009 Farrow joined the Obama administration with his appointment as Special Adviser for Humanitarian and NGO Affairs in the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.[24][25] He was part of a team of officials recruited by veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke,[26] for whom Farrow had previously worked as a speechwriter.[27] For the ensuing two years, Farrow was responsible for "overseeing the U.S. Government’s relationships with civil society and nongovernmental actors" in Afghanistan and Pakistan.[2][3]
In 2011 Farrow was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues[28] and Director of the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues.[2] The office's creation was the outcome of a multi-year task-force appointed by Clinton to review the United States' economic and social policies on youth,[29] for which Farrow chaired the lead working group beginning in 2010.[30][31] Farrow's appointment and the creation of the office were announced by Clinton as part of a refocusing on youth following the Arab Spring revolutions.[32] Farrow was responsible for U.S. youth policy and programming[2] with an aim toward "empower[ing] young people as economic and civic actors."[2] Farrow concluded his term as Special Adviser in 2012, with his policies and programs continuing under his successor.[33]
After departing government, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.[16]
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