BIOGRAPHIES — Prior to joining the IPCC, she was — Head of Legal Services at the East of England Development Agency. Before SARAH GREEN that, Sarah Green was an area solicitor Regional Director for the South East of for the eastern region of the Legal Aid England at the Independent Office for Board and then held a number of senior Police Conduct (IOPC) management roles nationally within the Sarah Green was Deputy Chair of Legal Services Commission. the Independent Police Complaints Before moving to the public sector, Commission (IPCC) before taking up she worked as a litigator for a large her role as a Regional Director for the solicitors’ firm representing trade union Independent Office for Police Conduct clients, including leading a national (IOPC, new structure overseeing ethics team responsible for private criminal in security services replacing the IPCC). prosecutions on behalf of public sector Like all operational Commissioners, employees assaulted at work. Mrs. Green was responsible for providing independent oversight of and taking ultimate responsibility for the investigations, casework and the promotion of public confidence in the complaints system. at the Diplomatic Academy and Judicial persons. Besides, he worked for the embassies, Migration Agency and cases — Academy, on the European and Croatian World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in involving aliens. framework of the fight against human the Altai-Sayan region. Mrs. Renfors is a former Senior Judge YIANNIS BOUTSELIS trafficking. As head and member of Mister Silvestri studied law in Italy and of Appeal, Head of Division at the Svea Senior Investigator and Deputy various working groups, Maja Kević international law in Geneva. Court of Appeal, director of a division Coordinator at the Greek Ombudsman participated to the preparation of handling, inter alia, civil law matters and legislative and strategic documents in Yiannis Boutselis is a senior investigator challenges to arbitration decisions. at the Greek Ombudsman, Human the area of human rights. She was also — rights department, and the deputy a coordinator of several EU projects, ANDRÉ FERRAGNE She has been director and head of the coordinator of the Ombudsman’s forced Secretary of the National committee Swedish Broadcasting Commission, and return monitors team. on suppression of trafficking in human General Secretary at the Contrôleur has handled international negotiations beings and has held numerous lectures général des lieux de privation de liberté, at the Swedish Ministry of Justice. He is a member of the EU pool of and presentations at national and France From 1992 to 2003, she was a legal monitors and pool of trainers. He adviser/deputy director and later under- international conferences, seminars and André Ferragne is the Secretary- has dealt with numerous complaints secretary at the Ministry of Justice’s expert meetings. General of the Contrôleur Général regarding violations of the rights of procedural law unit. asylum seekers and migrants, and Prior to being Deputy Ombudswoman, des Lieux de Privation de Liberté has been monitoring forced return Mrs. Kević was Assistant Director at the (CGLPL, Inspector-General of Places of Cecilia Renfors has also led several operations organized by Greece Government’s Office for Human Rights Deprivation of Liberty). governmental inquiries. and other EU Member States. He and Rights of National Minorities. The CGLPL is an independent participates regularly as a trainer in administrative authority tasked with the — sessions for monitors, escorts and — control of the conditions of take-overs escort leaders organized by Frontex or and of the transfer of persons deprived OLENA PETSUN the Greek police. ADRIANO SILVESTRI of liberties, with the aim of ensuring Adviser to the Commissioner for Human In the past, he worked as a journalist Head of Sector Asylum Migration and the respect of their fundamental rights, Rights, Council of Europe Borders, European Union Agency for without prejudice to the prerogatives in the UK and Greece and as a legal Olena Petsun joined the Council of Fundamental Rights (FRA) conferred by law to judicial or officer at the European Commission in Europe in 2005. jurisdictional authorities. It exercises Brussels. Adriano Silvestri’s areas of expertise control over the implementation of Since 2011, she works as an Adviser to with respect to the FRA’s work include removal orders by the administration, the Council of Europe Commissioner for international human rights and refugee issued against foreigners until their Human Rights. — law as well as the EU acquis relating to handover to the authorities of the state asylum, borders and immigration. Her current thematic portfolio includes MAJA KEVIĆ of destination. law enforcement authorities and human Deputy Ombudswoman, Office of the Before joining the FRA, he was at the rights. Ombudsman, Croatia United Nations High Commissioner for She holds a MSc. in International Born on February 12th 1976, Maja Kević Refugees (UNHCR), where he worked — Relations from the London School of graduated in 2000 from the Faculty in the field for several years (Armenia, CECILIA RENFORS the Russian Federation and Austria) as Economics. of Law at the University of Zagreb. In Ombud, Parliamentary Ombudsman, well as at the UNHCR headquarters. He 2008, she finished the Academy for Sweden Political Development program. worked on a wide range of activities, both legal as well as operational, relating Cecilia Renfors earned her LLB in 1986. Mrs. Kević was elected Deputy to asylum, the protection of internally Ombudswoman in the Croatian She is Parliamentary Ombudsman since displaced persons and statelessness. 2013. Parliament and took office in April 2017. Mister Silvestri was also involved in Protection and promotion of human the development of UNHCR tools and Her areas of responsibility are notably rights has been in her professional guidelines, for example on the best the police authority, public prosecutors, interest since 2005. She was a lecturer interest of the child or on assessing Swedish customs, rescue services, protection gaps for internally displaced the implementation of the human rights succeeded to Jack Lang at the Ministry Troccaz was since 2012 the Deputy — aspects of the Dayton Agreement. In of Culture in the Balladur government General Advocate, more specifically December 1999, he was appointed in 1993. He is appointed Minister of tasked with terrorism proceedings and ELENA ARCE JIMÉNEZ jointly by the Office of the High Justice in 1995. cases related to judicial police officers Head of the Migration and Equal Representative in Bosnia-Hercegovina or state officials. Besides, she was Jacques Toubon was subsequently Treatment Department, Defensor del and OSCE to chair a commission of responsible for the service of judicial elected to the European Parliament. Pueblo, Spain national and international experts with police officers, in charge of habilitation He was a member of the Brussels the task of drafting legislation in the proceedings and of the discipline for the Elena Arce Jiménez holds a Ph.D. in Parliament from 2004 to 2009. Law. She is the Head of the Migration fields of defamation and freedom of jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal. information. The group´s law proposals Jacques Toubon chaired the orientation and Equal Treatment Department at the Claudine Angeli-Troccaz was appointed were presented in March 2001 and council of the National Center of History Spanish Ombudsman. Deputy Defender of Rights, in charge of have subsequently been transformed of Immigration from 2005 to 2014, the conduct of security services, on 14 She has been working for the into law by the Bosnian parliament. which he contributed to create. He was November 2014. Ombusdman since 2007. Besides, Mrs. From 2003 to 2006, Mister Ahlund also a member of the High Council Arce Jiménez has been the coordinator chaired the Human Rights Committee for Integration and the High Authority of the following reports: “Children or of the CCBE (the Council of Bars and for the Dissemination of Works and — Adults?: Age Assessment procedures”; Law Societies in the European Union). Protection of Rights on the Internet “Trafficking in persons in Spain: Invisible In 2004, he received the International (HADOPI). CARMEN COMAS-MATA victims”; “Spanish prisoners abroad and Bar Association´s annual “Rule of Law Elected member, Subcommittee on He has been appointed Defender of The Spanish asylum system: reception Award”. Christian Ahlund has published Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Rights on the 18th of July 2014. conditions and procedures”. articles in Swedish and international Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or press on human rights and international Punishment (“SPT”, United Nations) — law. — Carmen Comas-Mata is an elected CHRISTIAN AHLUND CLAUDINE ANGELI- member of the Subcommittee on — Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Member of the European Commission TROCCAZ Inhuman or Degrading Treatment against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) JACQUES TOUBON Deputy Defender of Rights, Vice or Punishment (SPT) of the United Christian Ahlund is a member of Defender of Rights, France President of the college in charge of the Nations and the Director of International conduct of security services, France Relations at the Defensor del Pueblo, in the European Commission against Jacques Toubon graduated from the Spain. Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon and After passing the bar exam, Claudine the Executive Director of International the Ecole Nationale d’Administration Angeli-Troccaz was admitted to She has graduated from the Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), (ENA) and started his career in the The National School of Magistracy Autonomous University of Madrid with an umbrella organisation for a number French overseas Ministry. He then and started her career as a judge a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of of international associations of judges, joined the cabinet of Jacques Chirac, responsible for the enforcement of Communitarian European Law. prosecutors and lawyers, with the whom he follows successively to sentences in the Tribunal de Grande objective of resurrecting judicial the Ministries of relations with the Instance (first instance court) of systems in post-conflict countries. Parliament, Agriculture and Interior, Evreux. After working in the directorate During the latter half of the 1990´s, as well as in Matignon. Through these of judicial services in the Ministry Mister Ahlund´s main field of activity functions, he prepared the 1975 law on of Justice, she was appointed to became the Balkans, particularly divorce by joint petition and followed the General Inspectorate of Judicial Bosnia-Hercegovina. In 1997, he was the reform of the government of Valéry Services where she was responsible for posted in Sarajevo as Director General Giscard d’Estaing granting the majority disciplinary files or files related to the for Human Rights for the Organisation to 18 years. functioning of jurisdictions. of Security and Cooperation in Elected Member of the parliament for Assigned in 2009 to the Chamber of Europe (OSCE) Mission to Bosnia- Paris, he became mayor of the 13th Instruction of the Paris Court of Appeal Hercegovina, tasked with monitoring district of Paris from 1983 to 2001. He as General Deputy, Claudine Angeli- fundamental rights of foreigners and of Member of the Portuguese Bar — fighting against human trafficking. — Association since 1986, this membership has been suspended at his He is also an expert on police matters; FERNAND GONTIER EURICO SILVA request since 2010. Central Director of the Border Police, he published the manual “What rights Inspector, Inspectorate body of the France in the face of the police?” in 2014 and Ministry of Internal Administration, Besides, Eurico Silva has been participated to the works of the Study Portugal handling disciplinary cases, as well as Fernand Gontier graduated from the Centre on Police (Brussels). preliminary investigations of offences National School for Police of Lyon. Eurico Silva has been an inspector against regulations, besides audit, of the IGAI (General Inspectorate of He was also an auditor for the national inspection and monitoring proceedings. Internal Administration) since 2010, with session of the National Institute of — his third three-year service seconded Furthermore, he was appointed as a Higher Studies of Homeland Security MAGDALENA SILSKA assignment (comissão de serviço) member of the working group for the and of Justice in 2007 and for the Adviser to Fundamental Rights Office, presently underway. evaluation of public services in the area session of the Institute of Higher Frontex, EU Agency of the Ministry of Home Affairs under Studies of National Defense in 2001. Prior to that, between 2007 and 2010, he the PRACE (Restructuring Program of Magdalena works currently as an was a legal counsel and attorney for the the Central State Administration), from In 2007, he becomes the Deputy Adviser to the Fundamental Rights INAG (Water Institute), the Portuguese 2005 to 2006; he was also appointed Director of Illegal immigration and Office in Frontex, having started her National Water Authority. to other working groups tasked to draft Territorial Services. Then, in 2001, he work in the Agency almost 10 years ago legislative preliminary projects. is the Deputy Central Director of the as a Legal Officer in the Legal Affairs From 1999 to 2007, Mister Silva served Border Police and Chief of Staff of Paris. Unit. as a senior official of the State Central Eurico Silva holds a Law Degree from Thereafter, in 2015, he is appointed Administration, as a technical law the University of Lisbon School of Before joining Frontex, she worked with Deputy Central Director of the Border consultant of IGAI. Law (public university) and a Post- several EU and international institutions, Police. Since 2007, he is Central Director Graduate diploma on Assessment including the European Commission Earlier, from 1994 to 1999, he served as of the Border Police. and Organizational Development in and its Directorate-General for a senior official of the Lisbon Town Hall, Public Administration from the ISCTE, In 2018, he received the national police Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection as a technical law consultant as well. the Lisbon University Institute (public gold medal of honor. (ECHO), the European Parliament (as university). an Adviser to the MEP), the OECD, the UNESCO and several national — authorities (court and prosecutor office). MATHIEU BEYS As a lawyer with a specialization in Legal and policy officer at Myria, fundamental rights and migration, she Federal Migration Centre, Belgium has been engaged for more than fifteen Mathieu Beys is a legal expert and years as a coordinator and manager in a historian. He is currently a legal and number of international/EU projects and political adviser for Myria (Federal research, including projects of the OSCE Migration Centre, Belgium) and Office for Democratic Institutions and assistant in the Faculty of Law of the Human Rights. Université Libre of Brussels. Mister She holds a PhD degree in Law from Beys has been working on fundamental the Law Department of the European rights of foreigners for more than fifteen University Institute in Florence and years, first as a lawyer at the Bar of she was also the Visiting Scholar at Brussels, then as a judicial adviser in the Columbia Law School in New York. an NGO member of a large international The subject of her doctoral thesis network and lastly in Myria, focused on fundamental rights and the independent public Belgian institution, protection of displaced persons. notably in charge of ensuring respect of