Internationaladvisory Committee of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR)

InternationalAdvisory Committee of the Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights (MFHR)

OCTOBER 2013

1) Guðmundur Alfreðsson

-Professor, University of Akureyri (Iceland), University of Lund and University of Strasbourg(2006-2012)

-Adjunct Professor at the University of Greenland

-Former Director, Raoul Wallenberg Institute (1999-2006)

-Former member, UN Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (2004-2006)

-Former Member, UN Working Group of Intergovernmental Experts on the Implementation and Promotion of the Right to Development (1996-1997)

2) Philip Alston

-John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New YorkUniversitySchool of Law

-Former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (2004-2010)

-Former Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Millennium Development Goals

-Former member of the Group of Experts on Darfur (2007)

3) Dr. András Baka

-Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (1991-2008)

-Former President, Supreme Court of Hungary and the National Council of Justice

4) Wolfgang Benedek

-Professor, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz

-Co-Director, European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Graz

-Expert and consultant for: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Banjul, Gambia; UNITAR, New York; UN Human Rights Centre, Geneva; for the European Community, Brussels; for UNESCO, Paris, and for the European Council, Strasbourg

5) Theo van Boven

-Professor Emeritus of International Law, MaastrichtUniversity

-Former Co-Director, Maastricht Centre for Human Rights

-Former Special Rapporteur for the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

-Former Director, UN Division of Human Rights (today of the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR)

-Former expert member, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

-Former Special Rapporteur on the Right to Reparation to Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights

-Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

-Former member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

-First Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

6) Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade

-Judge, International Court of Justice

-Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

-Honorary Professor of Public International Law, University of Brasilia

7) Gérard Cohen-Jonathan

-Emeritus Professor of International and European Law of Human Rights, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas

-Former Director, Centre of Research on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (CRDH)

-Former President, International Institute of Human Rights

8) Jean-Paul Costa

-Former President, European Court of Human Rights

-President, International Institute of Human Rights

9) Hans Danelius

-Former Justice, Supreme Court of Sweden

-Chairman or Member of Arbitral Tribunals or sole Arbitrator (OSCE Court of Arbitration and Conciliation (1995-2007), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (since 1999))

10) Emmanuel Decaux

-Professor of Public International Law, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas

-Director, Centre of Research on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (CRDH)

-President, UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances

-Former member, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

-Former vice-president, French National Consultative Commission on Human Rights (CNCDH)

11) Mireille Delmas-Marty

-Professor, Collège de France

-Member, Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques

-Former Director, Institute of Comparative Law of Paris

-Member of the Global Council, CaliforniaInternationalLawCenter

12) Olivier de Schutter

-Professor, University of Louvain and the College of Europe (Natolin, Poland)

-UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

-Coordinator, EU Network of Independent experts on fundamental rights

-Coordinator, Academic Network on the European Social Charter

13) Pierre de Senarclens

-Honorary Professor of international relations, University of Lausanne

-Former Vice-President, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

-Co-Founder of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)

14) Asbjørn Eide

-Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo

-Former Chairman, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

-First Chairman, UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations

-Former Chairman, UN Working Group on Minorities

-Former President, Council of Europe’s Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on National Minorities

15) Robert J. Levine

-Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology, YaleUniversity

-Chair, Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, YaleUniversity

-Director, Law, Policy and Ethics Core, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health

-Senior Fellow, Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioethics

-Fellow of The HastingsCenter

-Former President of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics

-Former Chairman of the Connecticut Humanities Council

-Director of PRIM&R (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research)

16) Loukis G. Loucaides

-Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) (1998-2008)

-Former Deputy Attorney-General of Cyprus

17) Cecilia Medina Quiroga

-Professor of International Law, University of Chile

-Former President, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2008-2009)

-Former President, UN Human Rights Committee (1999-2000)

-Co-Director, Human Rights Centre, University of Chile

18) Manfred Nowak

-Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Vienna

-Co-Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights

-FRALEX Senior/International Expert to the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency

-Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004-2010)

-Former Member, EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights

-Former UN Expert on Disappearances (2001-2006)

-Former Judge, Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996-2003)

-Former Expert Member of the UN Working Group on Involuntary and Enforced Disappearances (1993-2001)

19) William A. Schabas

-Professor of Human Rights Law, NationalUniversity of Ireland Galway and University of Leiden

-Associate Professor at the University of Middlesex in London and at the QuebecUniversity

-President, International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009-2011)

-Former member, Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2002-2004)

-Chair, Board of Trustees, UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights

20) Dinah L. Shelton

-Professor of Law, GeorgeWashingtonUniversityLawSchool

-Member, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights

-Judge, International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation

21) Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos

-Judge, European Court of Human Rights

-Professor of International Law, University of Athens

-Former Director, Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights

-Former Member (1997-2009) and Chairman (2003-2004), Committee of experts of the Council of Europe for the Improvement of Procedures for the Protection of Human Rights (DH-PR)

-Member (2002-2009), Vice-Chairman (2004-2005) and Rapporteur (2008-2009), United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

-Member since 2000, then Vice-Chairman, Greek National Commission for Human Rights, 2006-2011

-Member of the European Union Network of independent experts in the field of fundamental rights (2002-2006)

-Member of the Management Board since 2007 and member of the Executive Board of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the European Union (2009-2011)

-Member of the Curatorium of the HagueAcademy of International Law, since 2010

22) Bruno Simma

-Former Judge, International Court of Justice

-Professor of International Law, MichiganUniversity

-Arbitrator, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal

-Former member, UN International Law Commission

-Former member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

23) Denys Symon

-Professor of Public Law, University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne

-Director, Ecole doctorale de droit international et européen (EDDIE)

-Associate Professor, University of Luxembourg

24) Sébastien Touzé

-Professor of Pubic Law, University of Strasbourg

-Secretary General, International Institute of Human Rights

25) Françoise Tulkens

-Former Vice-President, European Court of Human Rights

-Professor of Law, University of Louvain

-President, King Baudouin Foundation

-Member, Human Rights Advisory Panel of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo

26) Dr. Laurie S. Wiseberg

-Senior Protection Officer, UNHCR

-Former Minority Rights Adviser, UN Mission in Kosovo

-Former Executive Director and Co-Founder Human Rights Internet, Ottawa

27) Ineta Ziemele

-Judge, European Court of Human Rights

-Founding Director of the Institute on Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Latvia

-Lecturer in International and European Law, University of Latvia (1995-1999)

-Programme Adviser, Directorate General of Human Rights, Council of Europe (1999-2001)