Secretariat
The Secretariat is elected for a three-year period. The current Secretariat’s mandate expires September 2023.
Executive Committee
The member institutes of the Executive Committee are elected in staggered three-year periods and their designated representatives act on behalf of the institutes while on the committee. The current Executive Committee includes:
Melissa Castan
Monash University, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Aoife Nolan
Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham School of Law
Suzanne Egan
UCD Centre for Human Rights, College Dublin
Alejandro Fuentes
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Felipe Gómez Isa
Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto
Magnus Killander
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria)
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, University of Vienna
Manfred Nowak
Global Campus of Human Rights
Vesna Petrovic
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights)
Elizabeth Salmón
The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP), Universidad Católica del Peru)
Hans-Otto Sano
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Ingrid Westendorp, AHRI Vice-Chair
Maastricht Centre for Human Rights, Maastricht University
Roman Wieruszewski
Poznan Human Rights Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences
Jan Wouters
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
Gentian Zyberi
Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo