CPT Members - CPT - publi.coe.int (2023)

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

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

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

Lawyer in Tallinn City Office
Former member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT)

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

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

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

Senior General Practitioner PH
Lead Doctor, Migrant Health Service PH
Chair Resuscitation Committee PH

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

Jurist
Magistrate

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

Practising lawyer
Founding member of the Committee of Duty Solicitors

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

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

Degree in Criminology
Former Deputy Director General of the Grand Ducal Police

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

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

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

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

Lawyer
Senior adviser at the NPM (National Preventive Mechanism), Office of the Public Defender of Rights (Ombudsman)

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

Judge
President of the Warsaw Wola District Court

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

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

Medical doctor
Specialist in Forensic Medicine, Council of Forensic Medicine, Istanbul

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

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

Self-employed psychologist
Former Member of Parliament

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Practising lawyer and medical doctor
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Lawyer
Director of the Private Office of the Chairperson of the High Judicial Council

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

Lawyer
Principal Legal Adviser, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland
Former Member of the Asylum Appeals Board

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

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

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

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

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

Lawyer and social worker
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
Former Deputy Head of the Vienna Branch of the Residents’ Representation Association (VertretungsNetz)

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

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

Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist at the Security and Forensic Psychiatric Unit, Landspítali University Hospital, Reykjavík

Term of office expires: 19/12/2023

Lawyer
Deputy Team Leader, European Union Technical Assistance Penitentiary and Probation Support Project

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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

Psychologist
Senior Researcher, Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law
Former Professor of Psychology at the University of Applied Police Sciences Baden-Württemberg
Former clinical psychologistatthe Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Münster, Westphalia

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Attorney-at-law
Lecturer at the Donetsk National University (Criminal Justice, Political Sciences, Public Administration)

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

Lawyer
Chair of Legal Aid Board, Moldova
Former member of the SPT (2013-2020)

Term of office expires: 19/12/2025

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