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.