Secretariat
The Secretariat is elected for a three-year period. The current Secretariat’s mandate expires September 2023. The next host of the AHRI Secretariat will be University of Pretoria, South Africa. Check back here for more information for the transition.
Chair
Dr. Kasey McCall- Smith
The Global Justice Academy, University of Edinburgh
Executive secretary
Dr. Elaine Webster
Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law, University of Strathclyde.
Executive Board
The member institutes of the Executive Board are elected in staggered three-year periods with a two term limit and their designated representatives act on behalf of the institutes while on the board. The current Executive Board includes:
Melissa Castan
Aoife Nolan
Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham School of Law
Suzanne Egan
UCD Centre for Human Rights, College Dublin
Alejandro Fuentes
Felipe Gómez Isa
Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto
Magnus Killander AHRI Vice-Chair
Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, University of Vienna
Manfred Nowak
Vesna Petrovic
Elizabeth Salmón
The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP), Universidad Católica del Peru