Currently agent of the Government of Estonia to the European Court of Human Rights, Tim Kolk has served as an advisor to the Supreme Court of Estonia on constitutional and administrative law, and as a lawyer seconded to the European Court of Human Rights.

Klaudiusz Ryngielewicz is a graduate of Paris II Panthéon-Assas University in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. A French-Polish lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights since 1996, initially responsible for applications against Poland. 2011-2016, Senior Legal Adviser with a mandate to create the filtering mechanism at the Court following the entry into force of Protocol No. 14 to the ECHR. 2016-2020, head of the teams responsible for applications against Russia and head of the Court's working methods innovation laboratory. Since 2021, Director of Filtering and Support Services, Deputy to the Registrar of the Court responsible, among other things, for working methods, filtering of applications, conflict related applications, environment and immigration coordination, IT development and interim measures at the Registry of the Court.

Mateja Đurović has been serving as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights since 2024. He is Professor of Law and Technology and co-director of the Centre for Technology, Ethics, Law and Society at King’s College London. Before this, he was an Assistant Professor (2015‐2017) at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.

Veronika Fikfak holds academic positions at the iCourts Centre of Excellence, University of Copenhagen and at the University of Oslo. 

Veronika’s research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights, and public law. She specialises in the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights, with specific attention on access to human rights justice, and the implications of automation in this context.

She serves as the Secretary General of the European Society of International Law and also acts as judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights. 

Matthieu Quiniou is an expert for the Council of Europe's European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) and has coordinated the Advisory Board on AI since 2023.

As a lecturer and co-director of the Digital Transitions Master's programme at Paris 8 University, he regularly participates in training courses and conferences for UNESCO and the Council of Europe. He is also chairman of the Metaverse Commission at AFNOR and an active member of several technical standardisation committees, as well as the author of several books and specialist articles.

Vice-chairperson of the Steering Committee for Human Rights, she was from 1998 to 2001 a member and later chairperson of the Group of Specialists on Access to Official Information (DH-S-AC) elaborating a recommendation on access to official documents. She was Chairperson of the 7+7 expert Group and the expert negotiating group on EU accession to the European Court of Human Rights, both in 2010-2013 and in the negotiations in 2020-2023. She works as a Deputy Director General in the Legislation department in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security where she inn addition to Council of Europe matters is responsible for EU and EEA questions.

Alex Tallon is the Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Within the CCBE, he has also previously been an active member for six years in the Future Committee and in various additional CCBE working groups. Moreover, Alex Tallon has assumed several key leadership roles, serving as the President of the Brussels Bar (NOAB) and subsequently as the Head of the Belgian delegation to the CCBE for two years. He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 1981 and is a founding partner at law firms Praetica and Miles Legal.

Babette Koopman is a member of Steering Committee for Human Rights (CDDH) and the Chairperson of the Drafting Group on the evaluation of the first effects of Protocols No. 15 and No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights (DH-SYSC-PRO)

She is the Government agent of the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands before the ECHR, and the UN treaty bodies since 2017. Before that she was one of the agents representing the Netherlands before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Philip Leach specialises in international human rights law, both in his capacity as a practising human rights lawyer and as professor of human rights law at Middlesex University. He co-founded and until 2022 was Director of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC).

He is the author of ‘Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights’, 4th ed., Oxford University Press, 2017 and co-author (with Professor Alice Donald) of ‘Parliaments and the European Court of Human Rights’ (Oxford University Press, 2016). He is a member of Matrix Chambers, London.

Ioulietta Bisiouli joined EIN in her quality as EIN Director as of 7th August 2023. Ioulietta is an attorney-at-law and a member of the Athens Bar Association. Ioulietta has extensive working experience in the human rights field, having previously worked at: the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI);  the Council of Europe Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights; the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights; the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Representation to the European Institutions in Strasbourg; and the Amnesty International  European Institutions Office as the Executive Officer for the Council of Europe (ad interim).

Marius Emberland is as from 2023 professor of constitutional and public international law at BI Norwegian Business School's Department of Law and Governance. He was the Norwegian government's Agent before the Court from 2012 to 2022 (and co-agent before that). Prior to joining the BI faculty, he was chief analyst 2022-2023 at the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security, where he inter alia wrote a report on intra-governmental coordination of international human rights matters within the Norwegian government; and he has worked as senior legal adviser at the Department of Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as acting high court judge at Borgarting High Court. He is currently chairing an independent committee, set up by the Norwegian government, tasked to evaluate whether the 2020 Norwegian Foreign Intelligence Service Act.

Vassilis joined the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice in 2016.

An expert in public international law and human rights protection, Vassilis has published extensively on international law theory, human rights law, and their intersection, especially regarding the European Convention on Human Rights. He is qualified with the Athens Bar Association and serves as Vice-Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, as well as a member of the Council of Europe’s CPT. He advises private entities on international law, has appeared before courts, and provides training to government officials. Vassilis is also Co-Editor-in-Chief of The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review.