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
General Medical Practitioner, Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre
Former Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Immediate Past-Chair, Independent Prison Monitoring Advisory Group, Scotland
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Hans WOLFF (Switzerland)
1st Vice-President
Medical doctor
Professor of Medicine, University of Geneva
Physician-in-chief of the Division of Prison Health, University Hospitals of Geneva
President of the Conference of Swiss Prison Doctors
President of the clinical ethics committee of the Geneva University Hospitals
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Therese Maria RYTTER (Denmark)
2nd Vice-President
Lawyer
Legal Director, DIGNITY – Danish Institute against Torture
National Expert to the United Nations Sub-Committee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Expert to the OSCE Human Dimension Mechanism (Moscow Mechanism)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Mari AMOS (Estonia)
Lawyer in Tallinn City Office
Former member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Marios ANASTASI (Cyprus)
Criminologist and retired police investigator
Former Criminal Intelligence Officer of Interpol
Member of the European Society of Criminology
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Sanja BEZBRADICA JELAVIĆ (Croatia)
Human rights lawyer
Member of the Croatian Bar Association
Member of the National Committee for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Dagmar BREZNOŠČÁKOVÁ (Slovak Republic)
Psychiatrist
Head of 1st Dept. of Psychiatry, University Hospital Louis Pasteur, Faculty of Medicine of P. J. Šafárik, Košice
Vice-president of the Slovak Psychiatric Association, Slovak Medical Association
Head of Psychopharmacological Section of Slovak Psychiatric Association
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Marius CARUANA (Malta)
Senior General Practitioner PH
Lead Doctor, Migrant Health Service PH
Chair Resuscitation Committee PH
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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: 19/12/2023

Juan Carlos DA SILVA OCHOA (Spain)
Jurist
Magistrate
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Vincent DELBOS (France)
Lawyer
Judge
Inspector General, Inspectorate General of Judicial Services, Ministry of Justice
Former monitor for the Controller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty (CGLPL)
Former penitentiary judge
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Vanessa DURICH MOULET (Andorra)
Practising lawyer
Founding member of the Committee of Duty Solicitors
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Gergely FLIEGAUF (Hungary)
Criminologist and psychologist
Former Head of OPCAT NPM Department, Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
Former senior officer at the Hungarian Prison Service
Former prison social worker (educator) and psychologist, Budapest Medium and High Security Prison
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Jean-Charles GARDETTO (Monaco)
Defense lawyer
Former President of the Monegasque Bar Association
Former member of Parliament
Former Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the OSCE
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Nico HIRSCH (Luxembourg)
Degree in Criminology
Former Deputy Director General of the Grand Ducal Police
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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: 19/12/2025

Gordan KALAJDJIEV (North Macedonia)
Lawyer
Professor and Head of the Criminal Law Department Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law, Skopje University
President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights of North Macedonia
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Ifigeneia KAMTSIDOU (Greece)
Lawyer
Associate Professor (Constitutional Law, Fundamental Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law), Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
Former President of the National Centre for Public Administration and Local Government (EKDDA)
Member of the National Committee for Human Rights
Member of the National Council for the codification and the revision of the Greek legislation.
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Mark KELLY (Ireland)
Lawyer
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Ireland
Former Commissioner, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
Former Executive Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Marie KMECOVÁ (Czech Republic)
Lawyer
Senior adviser at the NPM (National Preventive Mechanism), Office of the Public Defender of Rights (Ombudsman)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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: 19/12/2025

Sebastian ŁADOŚ (Poland)
Judge
President of the Warsaw Wola District Court
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Alexander MINCHEV (Bulgaria)
Medical doctor, specialist in forensic medicine
Head of Department of Forensic Medicine, University Multiprofile Hospital For Active Treatment And Emergency Medicine “N.I.PIROGOV”, Sofia
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Ömer MÜSLÜMANOĞLU (Türkiye)
Medical doctor
Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Istanbul
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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: 19/12/2025
Olga NOYANOVA (Russian Federation)
Lawyer
Former staff member of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Judith ÖHRI (Liechtenstein)
Self-employed psychologist
Former Member of Parliament
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Solvita OLSENA (Latvia)
Practising lawyer and medical doctor
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Helena PAPA (Albania)
Lawyer
Director of the Private Office of the Chairperson of the High Judicial Council
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Kristina PARDALOS (San Marino)
Lawyer
Judge (membro effettivo) at the Constitutional Court of San Marino
Former Judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Jari PIRJOLA (Finland)
Lawyer
Principal Legal Adviser, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland
Former Member of the Asylum Appeals Board
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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: 19/12/2023

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: 19/12/2025

Răzvan Horaţiu RADU (Romania)
Lawyer
Prosecutor, the Prosecutor's Office attached to the High Court of Cassation and Justice
Professor of law at the University of Iasi
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: 19/12/2023

Vytautas RAŠKAUSKAS (Lithuania)
Psychiatrist
Consultant psychiatrist, Vilnius University Hospital “Santaros Klinikos”
Lecturer, Medical Faculty of Vilnius University
Consultant psychiatrist, Contention Commission at the Ministry of Social Security and Labour
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Karin ROWHANI-WIMMER (Austria)
Lawyer, social worker and consultant on ethics in healthcare
Member of the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism (Deputy Head of Commission)
Lecturer at the University of Vienna and the University for Applied Sciences in Vienna
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Arman TATOYAN (Armenia)
Lawyer
Former Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman and National Preventive Mechanism)
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Yerevan State University
Professor, American University of Armenia
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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: 19/12/2023

Elsa Bára TRAUSTADÓTTIR (Iceland)
Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist at the Security and Forensic Psychiatric Unit, Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Tinatin UPLISASHVILI (Georgia)
Lawyer
Deputy Team Leader, European Union Technical Assistance Penitentiary and Probation Support Project
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Chila VAN DER BAS (Netherlands)
Human rights lawyer
Member of supervisory boards of healthcare institutions
Former vice-president of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
Former judge, public prosector and advocate general
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Gunda WÖSSNER (Germany)
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: 19/12/2025

Dmytro YAGUNOV (Ukraine)
Attorney-at-law
Lecturer at the Donetsk National University (Criminal Justice, Political Sciences, Public Administration)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Victor ZAHARIA (Republic of Moldova)
Lawyer
Chair of Legal Aid Board, Moldova
Former member of the SPT (2013-2020)
Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Elisabetta ZAMPARUTTI (Italy)
Lawyer
Treasurer of “Hands Off Cain” (NGO dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty worldwide)
Board member of "Prison Insider" (NGO dedicated to worldwide information on prison conditions)
Former member of parliament
Expert in monitoring prison conditions and treatment of detainees
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023
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as at 01/03/2023
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