CPT Members
CPT members serve in their individual capacity, are independent and do not represent the State in respect of which they have been elected.

Alan MITCHELL (United Kingdom)
President
Medical doctor
Former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Past-Chair, Independent Prison Monitoring Advisory Group, Scotland
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Marie KMECOVÁ (Czechia)
1st Vice-President
Lawyer
Senior adviser at the NPM (National Preventive Mechanism), Office of the Public Defender of Rights (Ombudsman)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Gunda WÖSSNER (Germany)
2nd Vice-President
Psychologist
Professor of Psychology and Clinical Psychology, Protestant University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg
Specialist in Forensic Psychology
Former Senior Researcher, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Mari AMOS (Estonia)
Advisor on Pharmaceutical Policies, Ministry of Social Affairs
Former member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Valérie BERNARD (Monaco)
Medical doctor
Specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Graduate in Medical Ethics
Head of Department at the Princess Grace of Monaco Hospital
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Muhammed Emin BOYLU (Türkiye)
Psychiatrist
Department of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul University–Cerrahpaşa
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Lise-Lotte CARLSSON (Finland)
Physio- and Psychotherapist
Lecturer of crisis psychology at the Open University at Åbo Akademi University
Consultant for EU-RAN
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Vânia COSTA RAMOS (Portugal)
Practising lawyer
Researcher at the Law Faculty of the University of Lisbon in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Christopher CREMONA (Malta)
Medical doctor
Prison doctor, Corradino Services Agencies
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Orsolya CZENCZER (Hungary)
Head of the Law Division of the Hungarian Prison Association
Associate professor, Ludovika University of Public Service (LUPS)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Juan Carlos DA SILVA OCHOA (Spain)
Jurist
Magistrate
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Tom DAEMS (Belgium)
Criminologist
Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Ewa DAWIDZIUK (Poland)
Lawyer
Director of the Criminal Executive Law Department at the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, SWPS University, Warsaw
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Marrit DE VRIES (Netherlands)
Forensic Psychiatrist
Former director of the Netherlands Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology
Former Member steering group “Prison Health”, World Health Organisation (WHO)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Slavica DIMITRIEVSKA (North Macedonia)
Head of National Preventive Mechanism - Expert on juveniles in detention and juvenile delinquency
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Vanessa DURICH MOULET (Andorra)
Practising lawyer
Founding member of the Committee of Duty Solicitors
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Eleana FITIDOU (Cyprus)
Criminologist
Police constable working for the Crime Scene Unit within the Cyprus Police
University lecturer in criminology
Doctor in Criminal Justice
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Ronald GRAMIGNA (Switzerland)
Former head of the Execution of Sentences and Measures Unit, Federal Office of Justice (FOJ), Federal Department of Justice and Police, Ministry of Justice
Former prison director
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Gautam GULATI (Ireland)
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Domagoj HAJDUKOVIĆ (Croatia)
Legal expert
Former Member of Committee on Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities of the Croatian Parliament
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Klavs Duus Kinnerup HEDE (Denmark)
Legal expert
Director of International Relations, office of the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Anna JONSSON CORNELL (Sweden)
Lawyer
Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University
Chairperson of the Research Committee and the Board of the Centre on Police Research at the Faculty of Law
Secretary General of the International Association of Constitutional Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Dovilė JUODKAITĖ (Lithuania)
Lawyer
International cooperation manager at Lithuanian disability forum
Board member of European Disability Forum
National WHO Quality Rights expert
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Imants JUREVIČIUS (Latvia)
Director of the Latvian State Probation Service
Member of the Expert group on Technology in Probation of the Confederation of European Probation
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Brigitte KONZ (Luxembourg)
Legal expert
Former Member of the Constitutional Court of Luxembourg
Former Chair of the Steering Committee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Helen KONZETT (Liechtenstein)
National Independent Ombudsperson for Children’s Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Nikola KOVAČEVIĆ (Serbia)
Lawyer
Teaching Assistant at the Union University School of Law
Co-ordinator of the Asylum and Migration Programme at the Centre for Research and Social Development (IDEAS)
Former legal expert of the National Preventive Mechanism
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Anahit MANASYAN (Armenia)
Human Rights Defender of Armenia (Ombudsperson)
Member of the Council on Constitutional Reforms
Associate professor at the Department of Constitutional Law of Yerevan State University
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Slava NOVAK (Slovenia)
Holder of degree from the Faculty of Law at Zagreb University (Programme of social work)
Former Head of International Cooperation, Prison Administration of Slovenia
Former prison governor
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Helena PAPA (Albania)
Transparency and fight against financial crime expert
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Kristina PARDALOS (San Marino)
Lawyer
Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of San Marino
Former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Marica PIROŠÍKOVÁ (Slovak Republic)
Lawyer
Former Agent of Slovakia before the European Court of Human Rights, Ministry of Justice
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Ceyhun QARACAYEV (Azerbaijan)
Lawyer
Judge, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan
Doctor in Law, Professor at the Department for Constitutional Law, Baku State University
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Asbjørn RACHLEW (Norway)
Police Superintendent
Lecturer at the Norwegian Police College
Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Răzvan Horaţiu RADU (Romania)
Lawyer
Prosecutor, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice
Former Deputy of the General Prosecutor
Professor of EU and ECHR law at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Former Agent of the Romanian Government for the Court of Justice of the European Union and for the European Court of Human Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Karin ROWHANI-WIMMER (Austria)
Lawyer, social worker and consultant on ethics in healthcare
Head of Commission for Burgenland and Lower Austria of the National Preventive Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture at the Austrian Ombudsperson’s Board (NPM)
Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University for Applied Sciences in Vienna
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Gaëlle TAILLÉ (France)
Freedom and Detention judge, Strasbourg
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Aleksandar TOMCUK (Montenegro)
Psychiatrist
Head of the Centre for Mental Health Promotion and International Co-operation at Kotor Specialised Psychiatric Hospital
Member of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Elsa Bára TRAUSTADÓTTIR (Iceland)
Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist at the Security and Forensic Psychiatric Unit, Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Vassilis TZEVELEKOS (Greece)
Law academic and practitioner in Human Rights Law and Public International Law
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027

Dmytro YAGUNOV (Ukraine)
Attorney-at-law
Lecturer at the Donetsk National University (Criminal Justice, Political Sciences, Public Administration)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Victor ZAHARIA (Republic of Moldova)
Lawyer
Chair of Legal Aid Board, Moldova
Term of office expires: 19/12/2029

Elisabetta ZAMPARUTTI (Italy)
Lawyer
Treasurer of “Hands Off Cain”
Board member of "Prison Insider"
Former member of parliament
Term of office expires: 19/12/2027
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Georgia and the Russian Federation.
on 16/04/2026

Preventing torture in Europe
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