Prof. Veronika Bílková is the head of the Department of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague and senior researcher in the Centre for International Law at the Institute of International Relations, Prague. She is also the head of the University Centre for Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies in Prague. She is member of the Venice Commission  (since 2010) and member of COMEX (since 2025) of the Council of Europe. She was member of five expert missions on Ukraine established under the OSCE Moscow Mechanism in 2022-2025 and of the Management Board of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2020-2025). She was also the chair of the Czech Committee for Human Rights of Older Persons (2020-2025) and Secretary General and Vice-President of the European Society of International Law (2018-2023). Her fields of research include the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and the fight against terrorism. She has published extensively in Czech, English and French.