Francisca Van Dunem Minister of Justice,

Francisca Francisca Van Dunem was born in () in

1955. Graduated from the University Law School, she joined the Public Prosecution Service in 1979. She was a teaching assistant of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law at the Law School of the and adviser to the High Authority against Corruption. Served as Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Labour Court, at the Lisbon Pre-trial Criminal Court and at the Department for Criminal

Investigation and Prosecution of Lisbon, which she headed from 2001 to 2007. She was a member of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic from 1991 to 2001 and Prosecutor General of Lisbon region from 2007 to 2015, the year in which she took office as Minister of Justice. She represented the High Council of the Public Prosecution Service in the Mission Unit for the Penal Reform and she was a member of the Commission for the revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure in 2009. Member of the High Council of the Public Prosecution Service, she represented the High Council in the Management Board of the Centre for Judicial Studies. She represented Portugal in several meetings and expertise committees of international organizations, namely the European Committee for Criminal Problems, the Council of Europe, and the European Observatory for Racism of the European Union. Minister of Justice since November of 2015.

Didier Reynders European Commissioner for Justice and Consumers

Didier Reynders is European Commissioner for justice in charge of

rule of law and consumer protection, a position he has held since December 2019. Previously, he held several high-level political positions in Belgium including minister of defense, minister of foreign affairs, foreign trade and European affairs, minister of finance and deputy prime minister. From 2004 to 2011, he served as chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (liberal party alliance). He was elected member of the Parliament in 1992. Prior to this, he has presided the Belgian railways and the Belgian Airways Agency.

Reynders has been a guest lecturer at the universities of Liège and Louvain until he became European Commissioner. He holds a degree in law from the University of Liège.

Lilijana Kozlovič Minister of Justice, Slovenia

Lilijana Kozlovič, born on 30 October 1962, graduated from the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana in 1997. In 2012 she obtained a master's degree in law in from the same faculty.

She started her career in 1981 at Koper Police Directorate under the Ministry of the Interior and also pursued her academic career at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. In 1997 she became head of Civil Registry, Migrations and Public Order Division and later head of the Internal Administrative Affairs Division of Koper Administrative Unit. Between 1999 and 2000, she was a volunteer trainee at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia. In 2004, she joined the Ministry of Public Administration, working in the area of administrative affairs and e-government. In 2005, she was appointed head of Koper Administrative Unit. In 2014 she was elected Member of Parliament (National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia). Between 2016 and 2018 she was Secretary-General of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, and after that she worked as an advisor for the Advocate of the Principle of Equality. After taking the helm of Slovenian Environment Agency as Acting Director-General in June 2019, she was appointed Director-General in December 2019. She was appointed Minister of Justice in March 2020.

Adrián Vázquez Lázara Chair of the JURI Committee, European Parliament

Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Madrid, 1982) is a Spanish politician, Member of the European Parliament for Ciudadanos (Citizens), which is part of the Renew Europe parliamentary group. He is currently chairing the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI), and he is a Substitute Member of the Agriculture and Rural Development Committee (AGRI). Previous to his nomination as a Member of the European Parliament in February 2020, Mr. Vázquez was the Chief of Cabinet of the Delegation of "Ciudadanos Europeos". From this position, he coordinated the international and European activity of Ciudadanos, contributing to its incorporation into the ALDE European liberal family and negotiated the electoral coalition between ALDE and Emmanuel Macron´s political party. Renew Europe, the third largest political group of the Parliament, is the result of that coalition. With a Master in International Relations from the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) and a Degree in International Studies from the University of Lindenwood (Missouri, United States), Mr. Vázquez has a vast experience in international affairs and international organizations. He has worked in different organizations such as the OSCE, NATO or the Korean Trade Agency, and was an advisor to the former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ana Palacio. He has also worked as a Public Affairs consultant. Convinced pro-European, Mr. Vázquez has spent most of his professional career defending and empowering the European project. He has also played a key role in the promotion of youth movement “CCEuropa”. Currently, his work and efforts are focused in the JURI and AGRI Committees, as well as in his membership of the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (as a full member) and the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo (as a substitute member).

Michael O’Flaherty Director of the Fundamental Rights Agency

Michael O’Flaherty is Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights since 2015. He is a former Professor of Human Rights at the University of Nottingham and the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2004 to 2012 he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, latterly as Vice-Chair. Mr O’Flaherty has held a variety of other positions at the United Nations, both at headquarters and in the field, in which connection he witnessed, reported on, and sought to mitigate human rights abuses in such places as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Sierra Leone. He has also served as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, as Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, and as Vice-Chair of the Universal Rights Group. A solicitor of the Irish Courts, O’Flaherty received his Doctor of Laws from the National University of Ireland and holds degrees in international relations, philosophy, and theology.

Salla Saastamoinen Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, European Commission

Salla Saastamoinen has been acting Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers since February 2020, overseeing a wide range of policy areas, including civil and criminal justice, fundamental rights, data protection, rule of law, equality, citizenship and consumer protection. She is also Director for Civil and Commercial Justice since October 2016. Previously she was the Director for Equality as from 2014. As Director for Civil and Commercial Justice, she is in charge of the development and consolidation of the European area of civil justice, in particular of civil procedural law, private international law, contract law and company law. Salla Saastamoinen has worked in the Commission for 20 years, starting in the Directorate-General for Environment and then working in several areas in the Directorate-General for Justice. Before joining the Commission, Salla Saastamoinen was an associate partner in a law office in Helsinki, Finland. She has a licentiate degree in law from the University of Helsinki, Finland, and post-graduate studies in law from the universities of Saarbrücken, Germany and Zürich, Switzerland.

Zampia Vernadaki Secretariat of the JURI Committee, European Parliament

Zampia is a lawyer working in the secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) of the European Parliament since May 2015. She is responsible for civil law, civil procedure and private international law, including for relations with the Hague Conference and the European Law Institute, and she has worked among others, on the recast of Brussels IIa Regulation, the MFF establishing a Justice Programme for 2021-2027, the Representative Actions Directive and the EP legislative initiative report on common minimum standards of civil procedure.

She holds a PhD and LLM from UCL, a LLM from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and completed her undergraduate studies in law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a member of the Athens Bar Association and she has received scholarships from the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation and the Onassis Foundation.

In the past, she has taught in Coventry University London Campus and at University College London and she has undertaken research at the International Bar Association (London) and at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (London).

Pietro Franzina Professor of Private International Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan

Pietro Franzina teaches Private International Law at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. He is the Deputy

Secretary General of the European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL). Upon designation of the Ministry of Justice of Italy he attended several meetings of the European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. He is the co-author of studies commissioned by the European Parliament and the European Commission, as well as the co-rapporteur, with Richard Frimston, of a study of the European Law Institute on “The Protection of Adults in International Situations”

(2020).

Philippe Lortie Hague Conference on Private International Law

Philippe Lortie is First Secretary at the Permanent Bureau, Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH), since 2001. Among his primary responsibilities is the 2000 Protection of Adults Convention for which he played a key role as head of the Canadian delegation and member of the Drafting Committee at the time of the negotiation. He also has responsibility for all Hague Maintenance Obligations instruments including the 2007 Child Support Convention and its Protocol on Applicable Law, the International Hague Network of Judges (IHNJ) and issues concerning Direct Judicial Communications. He has developed information technology tools in support of Hague Conventions such as iSupport and the e-Country Profile under the 2007 Convention. Before joining the HCCH, from 1991 to 2001 Philippe Lortie was Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice of Canada heading Canadian delegations to HCCH, Unidroit and UNCITRAL. Philippe Lortie holds degrees in Civil Law (LL.L.) and Common Law (LL.B.) both from the University of Ottawa, and an LL.M. in international law from the same university. He is a member of the Quebec Bar since 1991. He holds a degree in Business Administration (B.A.A.) from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) de Montréal.

Jean-François de Montgolfier Ministry of Justice, France

JF de Montgolfier started his career serving as a civil and criminal judge at the Compiègne court. He then worked for five years at the Directorate for civil affairs of the french Ministry of Justice, first in the civil procedure department and then as head of the personal and family law department. He was then appointed to the legal department of Conseil constitutionnel (constitutional court) as a member and then as head of this demartment. In 2015, he was appointed to the Conseil d’Etat (supreme administrative court) as master of petitions. He has been Director of Civil Affairs of the French Ministry of Justice since June 2019.

Martina Peter Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany

Martina Peter is the head of Division RB4 (International Criminal Procedure Law and Courts Constitution, Victim Protection and Data Protection in Criminal Proceedings) at the German Federal Ministry of Justice and for Consumer Protection. She has held that position since 2018. Prior to this position, she worked for several years as a consultant in the area of victim protection in criminal proceedings. She also held the position as the head of the division for the professional law of lawyers in the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. Before entering public service, she gained professional experience as a practicing attorney.

Katarzyna Janicka-Pawlowska European Commission

Katarzyna Janicka-Pawlowska since September 2020 is the first European Commission Coordinator for Victims’ Rights. Katarzyna is heading the Victims' Rights Team in DG Justice and leading on victims’ rights policy, including enforcement of the EU rules, policy development and mainstreaming of the victims' rights policy. As the EC Coordinator for victims’ rights, Katarzyna ensures consistency and effectiveness of actions in relation to the victims’ rights policy. In particular, Katarzyna ensures a smooth functioning of the Victims’ Rights Platform – bringing together EU level actors relevant for victims’ rights including EU level agencies, networks, bodies and civil society. Katarzyna joined the European Commission in 2002 and since then has contributed to the enlargement of the European Union, completion of the single market, including digital single market, economic relation between the Union and third countries, the EU transparency and open data policy, non-discrimination and EU criminal law. She has contributed to the enactment and enforcement of several EU legal acts in these domains. Katarzyna has an extensive expertise in the EU decision-making and in the enforcement of EU law. Katarzyna has an LL.M. in European law from the College of Europe, Bruges and a master of law degree of the Warsaw University. She has also a Diploma in English Law and the Law of the EU from the Cambridge University. She has also studied French law at the Law Faculty in University of Orléans in France. Katarzyna was born in Poland; she is fluent in Polish, English, French and Spanish.

Albin Dearing Project Manager in the Research and Data Unit FRA

His areas of expertise with respect to the FRA's work include: criminal law and criminal justice; law enforcement reform; crime prevention and victims' rights. He previously worked in various positions, including the Law Faculty at the University of Linz, and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg. He has also worked for the Austrian Ministries of the Interior and Justice, and for many years presided over the Austrian Crime Prevention Council. In addition he has worked as a legal assistant at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg He studied law, and is the author of several academic journal articles and book chapters on various themes related to his areas of expertise, included edited books; for example: Opferrechte in Österreich, 2004 (co-editor with Marianne Löschnig-Gspandl); Schutz vor Gewalt in der Familie: Das österreichische Gewaltschutzgesetz, 2005 (co-editor with Birgitt Haller).

João Lázaro President of the APAV – Portuguese Association for Victim Support - and President of Victim Support Europe

João Lázaro is the Executive President of the Portuguese Victim Support Association (APAV) and President of Victim Support Europe. With a degree in Law and a postgraduate degree in Victim-Aggressive Mediation and Restorative Justice, he also practices law. João has collaborated with APAV since 1995, having served as Secretary- General until 2007, when he became Executive Director.

He also held important positions in several renowned national associations and was a professor in different criminology courses at distinguished Portuguese Universities. Over the years, he has been a speaker at conferences on issues related to the rights of victims of crime and victim support services and has also published several articles in the area of restorative justice and victimization..