CPT Members
CPT members serve in their individual capacity, are independent and do not represent the State in respect of which they have been elected.
Alan MITCHELL (United Kingdom)
President
Medical doctor
Former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Past-Chair, Independent Prison Monitoring Advisory Group, Scotland
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Hans WOLFF (Switzerland)
1st Vice-President
Medical doctor
Professor of Medicine, University of Geneva
Physician-in-chief of the Division of Prison Health, University Hospitals of Geneva
President of the Conference of Swiss Prison Doctors
President of the clinical ethics committee of the Geneva University Hospitals
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Therese Maria RYTTER (Denmark)
2nd Vice-President
Lawyer
Legal Director, DIGNITY – Danish Institute against Torture
National Expert to the United Nations Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Expert to the OSCE Human Dimension Mechanism (Moscow Mechanism)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Mari AMOS (Estonia)
Advisor on Pharmaceutical Policies, Ministry of Social Affairs
Former member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Lise-Lotte CARLSSON (Finland)
Physio- and Psychotherapist
Lecturer of crisis psychology at the Open University at Åbo Akademi University
Consultant for EU-RAN
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Vânia COSTA RAMOS (Portugal)
Practising lawyer
Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Juan Carlos DA SILVA OCHOA (Spain)
Jurist
Magistrate
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Tom DAEMS (Belgium)
Criminologist
Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Vincent DELBOS (France)
Lawyer
Judge
Inspector General, Inspectorate General of Judicial Services, Ministry of Justice
Former monitor for the Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL)
Former penitentiary judge
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Slavica DIMITRIEVSKA (North Macedonia)
Head of National Preventive Mechanism - Expert on juveniles in detention and juvenile delinquency
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Vanessa DURICH MOULET (Andorra)
Practising lawyer
Founding member of the Committee of Duty Solicitors
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Eleana FITIDOU (Cyprus)
Criminologist
Police constable working for the Crime Scene Unit within the Cyprus Police
University lecturer in criminology
Doctor in Criminal Justice
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Gergely FLIEGAUF (Hungary)
Criminologist and psychologist
Former Head of OPCAT NPM Department, Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
Former senior officer at the Hungarian Prison Service
Former prison social worker (educator) and psychologist, Budapest Medium and High Security Prison
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Gautam GULATI (Ireland)
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Nico HIRSCH (Luxembourg)
Degree in Criminology
Former Deputy Director General of the Grand Ducal Police
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Anna JONSSON CORNELL (Sweden)
Lawyer
Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University
Chairperson of the Research Committee and the Board of the Centre on Police Research at the Faculty of Law
Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Dovilė JUODKAITĖ (Lithuania)
President of the association “Lithuanian Disability Forum”
Board member of European Disability Forum
National WHO Quality Rights expert
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Imants JUREVIČIUS (Latvia)
Director of the Latvian State Probation Service
Member of the Expert group on Technology in Probation of the Confederation of European Probation
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Marie KMECOVÁ (Czechia)
Lawyer
Senior adviser at the NPM (National Preventive Mechanism), Office of the Public Defender of Rights (Ombudsman)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Nikola KOVAČEVIĆ (Serbia)
Lawyer
Teaching Assistant at the Union University School of Law
Co-ordinator of the Asylum and Migration Programme at the Centre for Research and Social Development (IDEAS)
Former legal expert of the National Preventive Mechanism
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Anahit MANASYAN (Armenia)
Human Rights Defender of Armenia (Ombudsperson)
Member of the Council on Constitutional Reforms
Associate professor at the Department of Constitutional Law of Yerevan State University
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Alexander MINCHEV (Bulgaria)
Medical doctor, specialist in forensic medicine
Head of Department of Forensic Medicine, University Multiprofile Hospital For Active Treatment And Emergency Medicine “N.I.PIROGOV”, Sofia
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Ömer MÜSLÜMANOĞLU (Türkiye)
Medical doctor
Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Istanbul
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Slava NOVAK (Slovenia)
Holder of degree from the Faculty of Law at Zagreb University (Programme of social work)
Former Head of International Cooperation, Prison Administration of Slovenia
Former prison governor
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Judith ÖHRI (Liechtenstein)
Self-employed psychologist
Former Member of Parliament
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Helena PAPA (Albanie)
Senior legal advisor and project manager at the European Judicial Training Network
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Kristina PARDALOS (San Marino)
Lawyer
Judge (membro effettivo) at the Constitutional Court of San Marino
Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Marica PIROŠÍKOVÁ (Slovak Republic)
Lawyer
Advisor to the Minister of Justice
Former Advisor to the Prime Minister's Committee on Justice
Former Agent of Slovakia before the European Court of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Ceyhun QARACAYEV (Azerbaijan)
Lawyer
Judge, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Doctor in Law, Professor at the Department for Constitutional Law, Baku State University
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Asbjørn RACHLEW (Norway)
Police Superintendent
Lecturer at the Norwegian Police College
Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Răzvan Horaţiu RADU (Romania)
Lawyer
Prosecutor, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice
Former Deputy of the General Prosecutor
Professor of law at the University of Iasi
Former Agent of the Romanian Government for the Court of Justice of the European Union and for the European Court of Human Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Karin ROWHANI-WIMMER (Austria)
Lawyer, social worker and consultant on ethics in healthcare
Head of Commission for Burgenland and Lower Austria of the National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture at the Austrian Ombudsperson’s Board (NPM)
Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University for Applied Sciences in Vienna
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Aleksandar TOMCUK (Montenegro)
Psychiatrist
Head of the Centre for Mental Health Promotion and International Co-operation at Kotor Specialised Psychiatric Hospital
Member of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Elsa Bára TRAUSTADÓTTIR (Iceland)
Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist at the Security and Forensic Psychiatric Unit, Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Vassilis TZEVELEKOS (Greece)
Law academic and practitioner in Human Rights Law and Public International Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Tinatin UPLISASHVILI (Georgia)
Lawyer
Deputy Team Leader, European Union Technical Assistance Penitentiary and Probation Support Project
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Chila VAN DER BAS (Netherlands)
Human rights lawyer
Member of supervisory boards of healthcare institutions
Former vice-president of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
Former judge, public prosector and advocate general
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Gunda WÖSSNER (Germany)
Psychologist
Professor of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg
Specialist in Forensic Psychology
Former Senior Researcher, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Dmytro YAGUNOV (Ukraine)
Attorney-at-law
Lecturer at the Donetsk National University (Criminal Justice, Political Sciences, Public Administration)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Victor ZAHARIA (Republic of Moldova)
Lawyer
Chair of Legal Aid Board, Moldova
Former member of the SPT (2013-2020)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025
Elisabetta ZAMPARUTTI (Italy)
Lawyer
Treasurer of “Hands Off Cain”
Board member of "Prison Insider"
Former member of parliament
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
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