Members of the European Committee of Social Rights

Karin LUKAS (Austrian)
President
- Senior Legal Researcher
- Head of Department
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human rights,
Vienna, Austria - Visiting Professor, Central European University, Vienna
- Term of Office : 31/12/2022
Eliane CHEMLA (French)
Vice-President
- State councillor
State Council, Paris, France - Term of Office : 31/12/2024
Aoife NOLAN (Irish)
Vice-President
- Professor of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, School of Law, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Term of Office: 31/12/2022
Giuseppe PALMISANO (Italian)
General Rapporteur
- Professor of International Law
Law Faculty of Roma Tre University, Italy - Term of Office: 31/12/2022
József HAJDÚ (Hungarian)
- Professor of Labour law and Social Security,
Faculty of law, University of Szeged, Hungary - Term of Office: 31/12/2024
Barbara KRESAL (Slovenian)
- Associate Professor of Labour Law and Social Security,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Term of Office: 31/12/2022
Kristine DUPATE (Latvian)
- Associate Professor, International and European law,
Faculty of Law, University of Latvia - Term of Office : 31/12/2022
Karin Møhl LARSEN (Danish)
- Adviser on International Social Security issues and European Union Law (retired)
- Term of Office: 31/12/2026
Yusuf BALCI (Turkish)
- Professor of Labour Economics and Social Policy,
Faculty of Business, Istanbul Commerce University - Term of Office: 31/12/2024
Tatiana PUIU (Moldovan)
- Attorney at Law, Specialist in Human Rights
- Term of Office: 31/12/2024
Paul RIETJENS (Belgian)
- Former Director general of Legal Affairs of the Federal Public Service of Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Brussels, Belgium (retired) - Member of the Complaints Board of the European Schools,
Brussels, Belgium (since 2007) - Term of Office: 31/12/2026
George THEODOSIS (Greek) 
- Assistant Professor of Labour Law and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative and European Social Law,
Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece - Term of Office : 31/12/2026
Mario VINKOVIĆ (Croatian) 
- Professor of Labour law and Social security, Holder of the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Labour, Equality and Human Rights Law (2013-2016),
Faculty of Law, University of Osijek, Croatia - Term of Office : 31/12/2026
Miriam KULLMANN (German) 
- Associate professor - Social Law Division, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Term of Office : 31/12/2026





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