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CPT Members


(in order of precedence – as at 04/03/2010)

Mr Mauro PALMA (Italy), President

Mathematician
Doctor in Law h.c.
Founder and Honorary President of Antigone (an association which promotes rights and safeguards in the criminal justice system)
Chairman of the Italian Prison Observatory
Human Rights Advisor to the Lazio Regional Assembly

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Pétur HAUKSSON (Iceland), 1st Vice-President

Psychiatrist
Former head of the psychiatric department at Reykjalundur Rehabilitation Center

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Haritini DIPLA (Greece), 2nd Vice-President

Lawyer
Professor of international law, University of Athens

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Marc NČVE (Belgium)

Practising lawyer
Former Chair of the Prisons Committee of the League of Human Rights
Former President of "Avocats sans frontičres - Belgique"

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Petros MICHAELIDES (Cyprus)

Lawyer
Former Minister of Justice

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Mario FELICE (Malta)

Lawyer
Chairman of the Prison Board of Visitors

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Eugenijus GEFENAS (Lithuania)

Medical doctor
Associate Professor at the Medical Faculty of Vilnius University

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Jean-Pierre RESTELLINI (Switzerland)

Medical doctor; Specialist in internal and forensic medicine
Lawyer
Former doctor in charge of the Prison Medicine Division (Geneva), and former cantonal doctor for the canton of Geneva

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Isolde KIEBER (Liechtenstein)

Member of the Correction Commission and of the National Preventive Mechanism
Former member of the Health Commission within the municipality of Mauren / Liechtenstein
Former prison educator in the areas of rehabilitation of prisoners and creative works

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Lətif HÜSEYNOV (Azerbaijan)

Lawyer
Professor of Public International Law at Baku State University

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Joan-Miquel RASCAGNERES (Andorra)

Practising lawyer

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Vladimir ORTAKOV ("The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia")

Psychiatrist
Head of the Community Mental Health Center "Prolet", Skopje

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Celso José DAS NEVES MANATA (Portugal)

Lawyer
State Attorney at the Lisbon Family and Minors Court of Appels
Former Director General of the Portuguese Prison Service

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Jřrgen Worsaae RASMUSSEN (Denmark)

Prison Chaplain at the Prisons of Copenhagen

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Antonius Maria VAN KALMTHOUT (Netherlands)

Lawyer
Professor in Penitentiary Law and Migration Law at Tilburg University
Member of the Complaint Committee of the Police in the West-Midden Brabant

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Elena SEREDA (Russian Federation)

Doctor of law
Professor of criminal and penitentiary law
Head of Department in the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr George TUGUSHI (Georgia)

Lawyer
Public Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia
Lecturer on international human rights law at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Wolfgang HEINZ (Germany)

Doctor in Political Sciences
Senior research fellow at the German Institute for Human Rights, Berlin

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Tim DALTON (Ireland)

Lawyer
Former Secretary General, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Ivan JANKOVIĆ (Serbia)

Practising lawyer
Former Chairperson, Commission of Pardons of the President of Republic of Serbia

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Olivera VULIĆ (Montenegro)

Psychiatrist
Currently holder of posts in the Podgorica Health Center (Dispensary for Mental Health) and Podgorica Prison

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Sonja KURTÉN-VARTIO (Finland)

Doctor in Political Sciences
Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Vasa
Former Deputy Governor of Vasa Prison

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Dan DERMENGIU (Romania)

Medical doctor
Director of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine "Mina Minovici", Bucharest
Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Anna ŠABATOVÁ (Czech Republic)

Doctor in Legal Theory
President of Czech Helsinki Committee and Lecturer at Charles University, Prague
Former Deputy to the Ombudsman of the Republic

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Maria Rita MORGANTI (San Marino)

Sociologist
Head of the social service for adults undergoing criminal court sentence enforcement, attached to the Justice
Department of the San Marino Court

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Ilvija PŪCE (Latvia)

Lawyer
Legal advisor at the Latvian Centre for Human Rights

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Arman VARDANYAN (Armenia)

Medical doctor and lawyer
Director of the Judicial School
Chair of the Board of Medical Psychological Rehabilitation Centre, Yerevan

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Dajena POLLO KUMBARO (Albania)

Lawyer
Legal Advisor to the Judge at the Constitutional Court

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Marzena KSEL (Poland)

Medical doctor
Medical specialist at the Regional Court of Cracow
Former Director of the Health Service at the Central Board of the Polish Prison Service

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Ms Anna LAMPEROVÁ (Slovak Republic)

Lawyer
Former political and diplomatic advisor on international law to the President of the Slovak Republic

Term of office: 19/12/2011

Mr Stefan WEINBERG-KRAKOWSKI (Sweden)

Psychiatrist
Senior Consultant, Psychiatric clinic, Danderyd Hospital, Sweden
Senior Consultant of SOS-International, Copenhagen, Denmark

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Vincent THEIS (Luxembourg)

Director of Luxembourg Prison
Former Director of Givenich Prison

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Yakin ERTÜRK (Turkey)

Professor of sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Former UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Georg HŘYER (Norway)

Medical doctor
Professor of social medicine, University of Tromsř
Chair of the Norwegian Research Network on the use of coercion in psychiatry

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Nadia POLNAREVA (Bulgaria)

Psychiatrist
Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic at the "Alexandrovska" University Hospital, Sofia

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr James MCMANUS (United Kingdom)

Professor of Criminal Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
Former Chairman of the Parole Board for Scotland

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Anna MOLNÁR (Hungary)

Psychiatrist
Chief physician at the Psychiatric Departement of Fővárosi Önkormányzat Szent Imre Hospital, Budapest

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Marika VÄLI (Estonia)

Medical doctor
Professor of forensic medicine, Tartu University
Deputy Director of the Estonian Forensic Science Institute

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Branka ZOBEC HRASTAR (Slovenia)

Lawyer
Head of the Specialized Department at the Office of the State Prosecutor General

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Ms Julia KOZMA (Austria)

Lawyer
Legal Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Régis BERGONZI (Monaco)

Practising lawyer
Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission of the International Union of Lawyers

Term of office: 19/12/2013

Mr Mykola GNATOVSKYY (Ukraine)

Lawyer
Associate Professor of international law, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv

Term of office: 19/12/2013


At this date, the seats in respect of the following States were vacant: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Moldova, Spain.


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