Biographical Data Form of Candidates to Human Rights Treaty Bodies s3

Annex III Biographical data form of candidates to human rights treaty bodies

Name and first name: Enrique Andrés Font

Date and place of birth: Santa Fe, Argentina

Working languages: Spanish and English. Portuguese (basic)

Current position/function: Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy, National University of Rosario; of “Police and Policing”, International Master on Comparative Criminal Justice, University of Barcelona and National University of Mar del Plata; and of “Sociology of the Police”, Master in Criminology, National University of Litoral. External Researcher on Institutional Violence, Center for Socio Legal Studies (CELS).

Main professional activities: Member, Advisory Council for Criminal Information Management, National Ministry of Security, representing the National University of Rosario (UNR), 2011- Secretary of Community Safety, Ministry of Security, Province of Santa Fe, Argentina, 2009-11. Academic Coordinator, project Human Rights Standards and Police Use of Force in Argentina, UNTREF, Secretariat of Interior Security and Tinker Foundation, 2008-11. General Coordinador, project Multiagency Intervention for Local Crime Prevention, UNDP and Argentine Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights, 2008-09. Adviser, National Education and Training Programme for Police Institutions and Security Forces, Secretariat of Interior Security, 2007-08. Member, Technical General Unit of the National Crime Prevention Plan, Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, 2000-02. National Coordinator, Project for Safe and Just Communities, Canadian International Development Agency, University of Toronto and UNR, 2000-05.

Educational background: Master of Science in Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, 1996. Lawyer specialized in criminal law, National University of Rosario, 1990.

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned: Prof. Font is a recognized human rights researcher and activist for the reform and democratization of the criminal justice system. He has specialized in confronting, proactively and reactively, different forms of police brutality, illegal use of lethal force, militaristic policing styles and torture and judicial and political denial of police illegalities. Among other initiatives he was a co-founding member of Zero Repression Network in Rosario (1999-02), of the Non Governmental Inquiry Commission on the Summary Executions of December 2001 in Rosario (2002-) and of the National Coalition More Rights More Safety – More Safety More Rights (2002-07). Currently he is also active member of the National Alliance The Agreement for Democratic Security (2010-).

List of most recent publications in the field: Book: Regulación y Control del Uso Policial de la Coerción y la Fuerza en Argentina, AAVV, Ministerio de Seguridad y Tinker Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2011. (as Academic Coordinator of the research). Book: Informe Final sobre la represión de diciembre de 2001 en Rosario, AAVV, Comisión Investigadora No Gubernamental sobre la Represión de Diciembre de 2001, forthcoming.