Manfred Nowak, Dr. iur. et habil. (University of Vienna), LL.M. (Columbia University, New York), Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights at Vienna University, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, Chairperson of the European Master's Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice; member of the International Commission of Jurists; former positions held: Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at the University of Utrecht, Professor of Human Rights at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the University of Lund, Judge and Vice- President of the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, member of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and U.N. Expert on Missing Persons in the former Yugoslavia.