MANAGEMENT BOARD

Professor Michael O’Flaherty (Project Director, Human Rights Law Centre)

Michael O'Flaherty read law at University College Dublin (BCL), theology and philosophy at the Gregorian University, Rome (BPh, STB), international relations at the University of Amsterdam (MA, MPhil) and is a Solicitor of the Irish Courts. He is Reader in Human Rights and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre. In 2004, on nomination by the Irish government, he was elected to a four year term as Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. His research interests are in the field of human rights, with particular reference to conflict and post-conflict situation and the law and practice of United Nations human rights treaty bodies and he has published extensively on these and related topics. Until December 2003, Michael was a senior research officer at the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Previous UN postings include, coordination of the Asia and the Pacific programmes at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, establishment of the UN human rights field operations in Sierra Leone and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Secretary of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and UN human rights advisor for implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement. From 2000 to 2002 he chaired the UN reference group on human rights and humanitarian action.

Michael is a Visiting Professor at the Sant’Anna School Scuola Superiore, Fellow of Kingston University and serves as an advisor to a number of international organisations, including OHCHR, UNICEF and the Sierra Leone Special Court. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Human Rights Law Review, the legal advisory committees of the European Roma Rights Centre (Budapest) and the Diplomacy Training Programme (Sydney), the Council of the European Inter-university Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice) and the Management Committee of COST Action 28, 'Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy'.

Dr. George Ulrich (European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation)                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                     
George Ulrich is Secretary General of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, where he served previously for three years as the Academic Coordinator and Acting Programme Director of the E.MA programme. Prior to this, he was Senior Researcher at the Danish Centre for Human Rights and Research Fellow in the University of Copenhagen’s Institute of Anthropology. He has published widely on issues of ethics and human rights, and lectured throughout Europe and Africa. He read social anthropology and history of ideas at Aarhus University (Cand. Mag.) and philosophy at the University of Toronto (MA and PhD).

Professor Andrea de Guttry (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)

De Guttry is Professor of Public International Law, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law and Institutions and Deputy Director of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in Pisa, Italy, where he is also Director of the International Training Programme for Conflict Management.  He is Director of various projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and has expertise in public international law; EU law; international human rights law; international humanitarian law; training of public servants (with special reference to the areas of EU law, human rights and international humanitarian law, peacekeeping operations, UN law); Development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of training courses; Design and implementation of vocational projects; Drafting of legal texts for the implementation of EU legislation and in the field of international trade; Technical assistance for EU candidate countries.

Nicole Fritz (Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria)

Nicole Fritz is the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. She obtained her LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and thereafter completed an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU Law School as a Hauser Global Scholar. She has taught constitutional and international law at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School and worked at Fordham Law School’s Crowley Program in International Human Rights in New York. She has also served as law clerk to Justice Richard Goldstone at South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Currently, she is a research associate at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and a contributing editor to The Star newspaper in Johannesburg.

Roberto Garretón M. (UN Secretary General's Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Genocide)

Gianni Magazzeni (UN-OHCHR)

Francesca Marotta (UN-OHCHR)

Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn (Chulalongkorn University, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in North Korea)

Vitit Muntarbhorn is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He is a former UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children and is currently UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation on Human Rights. He is the winner of the 2004 UNESCO Human Rights Education Prize and also helps many non-governmental organisations