Venice Commission of the Council of Europe

Former Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• Master of Law in Stockholm University – 1979
• Service with the Swedish Courts – 1979 - 1982
• Associated with Advokatfirman Vinge – 1982-2003, partner.
  Practising corporate, transport and bankruptcy law
• President of the Association of the Official Receivers in Stockholm (Konkursförvaltarkollegiet i Stockholm) –1995-1997, board member – 1993-1997
• President of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA), the International Association for Young Lawyers –1991-1992.
  (National Vice President for Sweden to the same organisation – 1987-1991)
• Deputy Chairman of the Swedish Bar Association –1996-1999
• Chairman of the Swedish Bar Association – 1999-2001
• Head of the Swedish delegation to the CCBE (Council of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Union) – 1998-2003
• Served as expert on several parliamentary committees
• Judge at the European Court of Human Rights – 2003-2012
  Vice-President of Section III – 2008-2011
  Vice-President of Section V – 2011-2012
• Iuris Doctor Honoris Causa, Stockholm University – September 2010
• Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman of Sweden – 2012-2016
• Member of the Independent Investigation Body with regard to allegations of corruption within the Parliamentary Assembly (IBAC) - 2017-2018
• President of the board of trustees of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law – 2016 - present
• Member of the Parliamentary Board for the Examination of Transitionary Restrictions for Ministers and certain other Officeholders – 2020 - present
• President of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset (governmental investigation) – 2020 - present