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Dr. Ian Hancock during a sponsored visit to the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia, January 10–14, 2005.

Ian Hancock (Romani: Yanko le Redžosko) is a renowned linguist, Romani scholar, and human rights advocate. He was born and raised in England.

He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Clinton, who is himself part Romani. He also represented the Romani people at the 1997 Rafto Prize award ceremony.