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.


Mykola GNATOVSKYY (Ukraine)
President
Lawyer
Professor of international law, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv
Term of office expires 19/12/2021

Mark KELLY (Ireland)
1st Vice-President
Lawyer
Former Commissioner, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission
Former Executive Director, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Therese Maria RYTTER (Denmark)
2nd Vice-President
Lawyer
Director of Legal Affairs, DIGNITY – Danish Institute Against Torture
Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Council of Denmark
National Expert to the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021


Djordje ALEMPIJEVIC (Serbia)
Medical doctor
Associated professor of forensic medicine at the Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Régis BERGONZI (Monaco)
Practising lawyer
President of the Human Rights Commission of the International Union of Lawyers
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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

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)
Lawyer
Senior judge
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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: 19/12/2021

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: 19/12/2021

Per GRANSTRÖM (Sweden)
Former Head of Department at the National Board for Forensic Medicine, Stockholm
Former Advisor to the Director General at the National Prison and Probation Administration
Former Prison Governor
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Nico HIRSCH (Luxembourg)
Degree in Criminology
Former Deputy Director General of the Grand Ducal Police
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Georg HØYER (Norway)
Medical doctor
Professor of social medicine, University of Tromsø
Chair of the Norwegian Research Network on the use of coercion in psychiatry
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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

Julia KOZMA (Austria)
Lawyer
Senior legal researcher on human rights and impunity issues
Independent human rights consultant
Lecturer in human rights law at Strasbourg University
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Marie LUKASOVÁ (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

Philippe MARY (Belgium)
Social worker, Degree in social sciences and PhD in criminology
Professor of penology and penal policy, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Brussels Free University
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: 19/12/2021

Alan MITCHELL (United Kingdom)
Medical doctor
General Medical Practitioner, Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre
Commissioner, Scottish Human Rights Commission
Chair, Independent Prison Monitoring Advisory Group, Scotland
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Ömer MÜSLÜMANOĞLU (Turkey)
Medical doctor
Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Istanbul
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Vitalie NAGACEVSCHI (Republic of Moldova)
Practising lawyer
Chairman of the Association “Lawyers for Human Rights”
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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: 19/12/2021

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)
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

Răzvan Horaţiu RADU (Romania)
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

Davor STRINOVIĆ (Croatia)
Medical doctor, specialist in forensic medicine
Former Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, Medical School University of Zagreb
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Arman TATOYAN (Armenia)
Lawyer
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
Former Regional Project Officer, Council of Europe Office in Tbilisi
Former Human Rights Officer, OSCE Mission to Georgia
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

Marika VÄLI (Estonia)
Medical doctor
Professor of forensic medicine, Tartu University
Deputy Director of the Estonian Forensic Science Institute
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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: 19/12/2021

Hans WOLFF (Switzerland)
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
Term of office expires: 19/12/2021

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as at 04/01/2021

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