Roberto Saba studied law at the University of Buenos Aires and earned his Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Law from Yale University.

He was a Ford Foundation Fellow, an International Fellow of the Charles Kettering Foundation, and a Senior Fellow of the Ashoka Foundation. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights at the Universities of Buenos Aires, Palermo, and Litoral (Argentina).

He served as Executive Director of Fundación Poder Ciudadano (the Argentine chapter of Transparency International) from 1995 to 1998, and was Co-founder and Executive Director of the Civil Rights Association in Argentina from 2001 to 2009. He was Dean of the Law School at the University of Palermo from 2009 to 2016, where he currently serves as Director of the Center for Graduate Studies.

He has acted as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in cases involving freedom of expression and equality, and has worked as a consultant for national and international organizations on issues related to human rights, citizen participation, transparency, and justice reform.

He has published numerous articles and book chapters on equality, freedom of expression, the right to information, separation of church and state, comparative constitutional law, the role of judges, and constitutional theory.