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)