Secretariat
The Secretariat is elected for a three-year period. From September 2023, the AHRI Secretariat is based at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Frans Viljoen
Chair
Magnus Killander
Executive Secretary
Executive Board
The member institutes of the Executive Board are elected in their personal capacity in staggered three-year periods with a two term limit. The current members of the Executive Board are:
Aoife Nolan
Human Rights Law Centre,
University of Nottingham School of Law
Suzanne Egan
UCD Centre for Human Rights,
University College Dublin
Kasey McCall-Smith
Global Justice Academy,
University of Edinburgh
Alejandro Fuentes
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Felipe Gómez
Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto
Elaine Webster
Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law, University of Strathclyde
Michael Lysander Fremuth
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, University of Vienna
Manfred Nowak
Global Campus of Human Rights
Vesna Petrovic
Belgrade Centre for Human Rights
Elizabeth Salmón
The Institute of Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP), Universidad Católica del Peru
Thomas Bundschuh
Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Eva Maria Lassen
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Katarzyna Sekowska-Kozlowska
Poznan Human Rights Centre
Jan Wouters
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, KU Leuven
Viviana Fernandez
Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
Norman Weiß
Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam
Amanda Cahill-Ripley
International Law and Human Rights Unit, University of Liverpool