Manfred Nowak

Nationality: Austria

Relevant Experience:

• Professor of International Human Rights, University of Vienna
• Founder and Scientific Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna
• Secretary General, Global Campus of Human Rights, Venice
• Independent Expert leading the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty(2016–2019)
• Expert Member of the UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances(1993–2001)
• UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (2004–2010)

Notes: Chairman (ICCPR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Initial (2013), Second (2017) and Third (2022) State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan (R.O.C)

William Schabas

Nationality: Canada

Relevant Experience:

• Professor of international law, Middlesex University and Leiden University
• Head of UN Committee investigating the role of Israel in the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (2014)
• Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights (2009–2011)
• President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2009–2011)
• Consultant on capital punishment for the UN Office of Drugs and Crime

Notes: Member (ICCPR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Third (2022) State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan (R.O.C)

Rukka Sombolinggi

Nationality: Indonesia

Relevant Experience:

• Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)
• Member of Executive Council of Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (2009–2012)
• Program Specialist of the UNDP Regional Indigenous Peoples Program at UNDP Asia Pacific Regional Centre (2007–2010)

Notes: Member (ICCPR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Third (2022) State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan (R.O.C)

Síofra O’Leary

Nationality: Ireland

Relevant Experience:

• Fellow at the Hauser Global Law School and Remarque Institute, NYU (2025–2026)
• Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (2015–2020), President of Section (2020–2022), Vice-President of the court (2022) and President of the court (2022–2024)
• Adjunct Full Professor, University College Dublin and Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Belgium
• Member of the Advisory Boards of the Common Market Law Review and the Irish Centre for European Law
• Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of King's Inns, Dublin and of Lincoln’s Inn, London

David Kaye

Nationality: USA

Relevant Experience:

• Clinical Professor of law at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law and the Director of the International Justice Clinic
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Public International Law, Lund University Law Faculty, Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, Sweden (2023–2024)
• U.S. Independent Expert to the European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”)
• UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression (2014–2020)
• Member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom Coalition
• International Board of Trustees/Member of ARTICLE 19

Dunja Mijatović

Nationality: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Relevant Experience:

• Council of Europe Commissioner on Human Rights (2018–2024)
• OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2010–2017)
• Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies (2007–2010)
• Chair of the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Freedom of Expression and Information in Times of Crisis (2005–2007)
• Director of Broadcasting at the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001–2010)

Heisoo Shin

Nationality: Korea

Relevant Experience:

• Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women for two terms (2001–2004, 2005–2008) and the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for three terms of 12 years (2011–2022)
• Chair, Board of Directors, Korea Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy (2017–present)
• Member, Regional Council, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development and its Programme and Management Committee (2022–present)
• Invited professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Ewha Womans University (2013–2020)
• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the UN Secretary-General’s In-Depth Study on All Forms of Violence against Women (2005–2006)
• Commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission in Korea (2005–2008)
• Chairperson of the Committee on Gender Policies, Ministry of Justice, Republic of Korea (2007–2009)

Notes: Member (ICESCR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Initial (2013), Second (2017) and Third (2022) State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan

Rosslyn Noonan

Nationality: New Zealand

Relevant Experience:

• Member of the International Review Committee of the Initial Report on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of Taiwan (2024)
• Director at the Faculty of Law of Auckland University’s Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy & Practice
• Chair for the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions
• Chief Commissioner of Human Rights Commission of New Zealand

Notes: Member (ICESCR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Third State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan (2022)

Miloon Kothari

Nationality: India

Relevant Experience:

• UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing with the UN Human Rights Council (2000–2008)
• President of UPR Info (2015–2022)
• Convener of the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (2009–2014)
• Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program on Human Rights and Justice (2014–2015)
• Commissioner with the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem and Israel

Notes: Member (ICESCR-Committee Panelist) of the International Review Committee of the Second (2017) and Third (2022) State Reports on the Two Covenants of Taiwan

Olivier De Schutter

Nationality: Belgium

Relevant Experience:

• Professor of Law at UCLouvain and Sciences Po
• Member of the European Committee of Social Rights (2025–)
• Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2015–2020)
• UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food (2008–2014) and extreme poverty and human rights (2020–) by the Human Rights Council
• Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) (2004–2008)
• Co-chairman of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food)
• Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley (2013–2014)

David Richard Boyd

Nationality: Canada

Relevant Experience:

• Professor of Law, Policy and Sustainability of the University of British Columbia
• UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment (2018–2024)
• Expert advisor for the UN’s Harmony with Nature Initiative
• Former Executive Director of Ecojustice
• Member of the World Commission on Environmental Law
• Member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Jochen von Bernstorff

Nationality: Germany

Relevant Experience:

• Chair of Constitutional Law, Public International Law and Human Rights Law of University of Tübingen
• Chair of the German Institute of Human Rights Board of Trustees
• Visiting professor at the German Federal Foreign Office Academy Berlin (2020–), Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II (IHEI), Université Aix-Marseille and at National Taiwan University
• German delegation at UN Human Rights Council
• German delegation at the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva
• Member of the German delegation at the UN General Assembly in New York