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Ronan Farrow (born Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow; December 19, 1987) is an American activist, journalist, lawyer and former U.S. government advisor. He is the son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen.

Early life

Farrow was born in New York City, to actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen. He was named after baseball player Satchel Paige and his maternal grandmother, actress Maureen O'Sullivan. He was given the surname "Farrow" to avoid a family with "one child named Allen amidst two Farrows and six Previns."

Farrow attended Bard College at Simon's Rock and graduated at age 15. In 2009, after deferring admission for several years, he graduated from Yale Law School, and he later became a member of the New York Bar.

Career

From 2001 to 2009, he was a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth, acting as an 'advocate' for children and women caught up in the ongoing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region and assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations affiliated groups in the United States. During this time, he also made joint trips to the Darfur region of Sudan with his mother, the actress Mia Farrow, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. He subsequently advocated for the protection of Darfuri refugees. Following on his experiences in Sudan, Farrow was affiliated with the Genocide Intervention Network, a group founded by Swarthmore College students to advocate for armed involvement in the Darfur Conflict.

During his time at Yale Law School, Farrow interned 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.

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. He was part of a team of officials recruited by veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke, for whom Farrow had previously worked as a speechwriter. 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.

In 2011 Farrow was appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Adviser for Global Youth Issues and Director of the State Department's Office of Global Youth Issues. 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, for which Farrow chaired the lead working group beginning in 2010. 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. Farrow was responsible for U.S. youth policy and programming with an aim toward "empower young people as economic and civic actors." Farrow concluded his term as Special Adviser in 2012, with his policies and programs continuing under his successor.

After departing government, Farrow began a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University.

He has written essays, op-eds and other pieces for The Guardian, Foreign Policy magazine, 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 beginning in early 2014. Also that month, Penguin Press acquired Farrow's book, Pandora’s Box: How American Military Aid Creates America’s Enemies, scheduling it for 2015 publication.

Recognition

He has been named New York magazine’s "New Activist" of the year and included on its list of individuals "on the verge of changing their worlds” for 2009; listed as Harper’s Bazaar’s "up-and-coming politician" of 2011; and ranked number one in Law and Policy on Forbes Magazine’s "30 Under 30" Most Influential People list for 2012. In its 2013 retrospective of men born in its 80 years of publication, Esquire magazine named him the man of the year of his birth.

Farrow was awarded Refugees International's McCall-Pierpaoli Humanitarian Award in 2008, for "extraordinary service to refugees and displaced people."

He was awarded an honorary Doctorate by Dominican University of California in 2012.

Farrow received the third annual Cronkite Award for Excellence in Exploration and Journalism from the group Reach the World in 2014.

Personal life

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

Asked about longstanding speculation that Ronan Farrow is the son of Mia Farrow's ex-husband Frank Sinatra, Mia Farrow claimed in a 2013 Vanity Fair article that Sinatra might "possibly" be Ronan's father. After the allegation became widespread in the news media, Ronan Farrow tweeted humorously on October 2, 2013, "Listen, we're all *possibly* Frank Sinatra's son." In a February 7, 2014 editorial he wrote in the New York Times, Allen expressed publicly his own uncertainty, writing, "Is he my son or, as Mia suggests, Frank Sinatra’s?" No DNA testing has been conducted to determine Farrow's paternity.

See also

• Ronan Farrow Daily

References

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44. "LIFE.com: Cheating Scandals of the Stars". Life via Xfinity. Undated. Retrieved 2013-11-21. After Allen and Soon-Yi wed in 1997, his biological son Ronan Seamus Farrow said, 'He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression.... I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent.' {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
45. Farrow, Ronan (June 12, 2012). "[Twitter post]". Twitter.com. Retrieved November 15, 2013.
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47. ^ "Mia Farrow and Eight of Her Children Speak Out on Their Lives, Frank Sinatra, and the Scandals They've Endured". Vanity Fair. October 2, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
48. Palmer, Roxanne (October 2, 2013). "Woody Allen Or Ol' Blue Eyes? What Ronan Farrow's Eye Color Says About Who His Father Is (Not Much)". International Business Times. Retrieved February 16, 2014.
49. Allen, Woody (February 7, 2014). "Woody Allen Speaks Out". New York Times. Retrieved February 10, 2014. Is he my son or, as Mia suggests, Frank Sinatra's? Granted, he looks a lot like Frank with the blue eyes and facial features, but if so what does this say? That all during the custody hearing Mia lied under oath and falsely represented Ronan as our son? Even if he is not Frank's, the possibility she raises that he could be, indicates she was secretly intimate with him during our years. Not to mention all the money I paid for child support. Was I supporting Frank's son? {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

• "Ronan Farrow" (biography). United States: Department of StateTemplate:Inconsistent citations {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• "College Boy". People. January 1, 2000. Retrieved April 24, 2010.

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