Faculty

Our Faculty is composed of university professors and academic lecturers from various disciplines as well as human rights practitioners working in international organisations, human rights institutes, the corporate sector, development agencies and civil society organisations, such as:

• The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights including its Director Mr. Morten Kjaerum
• The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) including its Secretary General Mr. Lamberto Zannier, OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings Ms. Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the Director of the Office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Ms. Dunja Mijatović, former Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Mr. Christian Strohal
• The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) including its Executive Director and Director General of the UN Office in Vienna Mr. Yury Fedotov
• The International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) including its Chair of the Steering Committee Mr. Martin Kreutner 
• Former member of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Nepal and Cambodia and the OSCE in Kosovo
• Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) at the Council of Europe
• Member of the European Committee of Social Rights at the Council of Europe
• Member of the European Parliament
• Member of the Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) of the European Union
• Head of Political Affairs Division IV, Human Security, of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs Mr. Thomas Greminger
• Researchers of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, including its Co-Directors Mr. Manfred Nowak and Mr. Hannes Tretter
• Professors of the University of Vienna (Faculty of Psychology, Catholic Theological Faculty, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, Department of International Development)
• Institute for Austrian and European Public Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Interdisciplinary Research Platform „Human Rights in the European Context“ of the University of Vienna
• Austrian Development Agency
• HumanRightsConsulting Vienna
• Consultant at the International Red Cross (ICRC)
• Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, Department of Human Rights
• Law firms dealing with human rights issues
• NGOs, such as Amnesty International Austria