Raja Abi Nader, Magistrate in charge of the prison administration at the Ministry of Justice of Lebanon

Mari Amos, Member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, Head of the European Regional Team (2010-2018), Member of the NPM team at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice (Ombudsman) of Estonia (2005-2011)

Inmaculada Arnaez, Fundamental Rights Officer of Frontex

Ledi Bianku, Judge at the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Albania (2008-2019)

Adam Bodnar, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, Professor of SWPS University in Warsaw

Amina Bouayach, President of the National Human Rights Council of Morocco

Régis Brillat, Executive Secretary of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), Council of Europe

Hervé Caniard, Director of the Legal and Procurement Unit of Frontex

João Costa, Head of the National Preventive Mechanism, Office of the Ombudsman of Portugal

George Crassas, Senior Officer overseeing the NPM, Office of the Commissioner for Administration and the protection of Human Rights (Ombudswoman) of Cyprus

Silvia Casale, President of the Independent NPM Observatory, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on behalf of the United Kingdom (2002-2007), President of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (2007-2009)

Jean-Marie Delarue, General Controller of the places of deprivation of liberty of France (2008-2014), President of the National Consultative Commission for Human Rights (2019)

Andrew Drzemczewski, Head of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Department of the Parliamentary Assembly (2005-2016) of the Council of Europe, Head of the Secretary General’s Monitoring Unit (1996-2005), Council of Europe

Jasminka Dzumhur, Human Rights Ombudsman of Bosnia & Herzegovina, Member of the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families, Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2014-2015)

Malcolm Evans, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol (UK), Chair of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture

Gergely Fliegauf, Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on behalf of Hungary, Head of the NPM Section of the Office of the Hungarian Ombudsman (2015-2020)

Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen, Parliamentary Ombudsman of Denmark (1987-2012)

Christos Giakoumopoulos, Director General of Human Rights and Rule of Law of the Council of Europe

Alvaro Gil Robles, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (1999-2006), Defensor del Pueblo (Ombudsman) of Spain (1983-1993)

Mykola Gnatowskyy, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on behalf of Ukraine

Nick Hardwick, Chair of the Assessment Committee of the Independent NPM Observatory, Chair of the Parole Board for England and Wales (2016-2018), Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons and Chair of the National Preventive Mechanism Against Torture of the United Kingdom (2010-2016), Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (2003-2010)

Saša Janković, Ombudsman of Serbia (2007-2017)

Féthi Jarray, President of the National Body for the Prevention of Torture of Tunisia

Florence Laufer, Director of Prison Insider

Manuel Lezertua Rodríguez, Ararteko (Ombudsman) of the Basque Country; Director of Legal Advice and Public International Law (2008-2013), Director of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights (2004-2008), Council of Europe

Patrick Marest, General Delegate of the French Section of the Observatoire international des prisons

Pilar Morales, Head of Department, Office of the Directorate General of Programmes of the Council of Europe

Marc Nève, Head of the Central Council of Prison Supervision of Belgium, Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (1999-2011), Chairperson of Lawyers Without Borders (1999-2004)

Manfred Nowak, Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, Independent Expert in charge of the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, UN Special Rapporteur on Prevention of Torture (2004-2010)

Mauro Palma, National Guarantor for the rights of persons deprived of liberty of Italy, President of the Italian NPM, President of the European Committee for the prevention of torture (2007 – 2011), President of the European Council for penological cooperation (2012 – 2015), Adviser to the Italian Minister of Justice (2012 – 2015)

Zdenka Perović, Member of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, Deputy Ombudsman of Montenegro in charge of the National Preventive Mechanism Against Torture

Jean-Pierre Restellini, Chair of the National Commission for Prevention of Torture of Switzerland (2009-2015,) Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (1991-2014)

Ivan Selih, Deputy Ombudsman and Head of National Preventive Mechanism against Torture of Slovenia

Trevor Stevens, Executive Secretary of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (1989-2014), Council of Europe

Tineke Strik, Member of the European Parliament, Member of the Senate of the Netherlands (2007-2019)

Arman Tatoyan, Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia

Vincent Theis, Member of the Board of the Independent NPM Observatory, Head of the Penitentiary Centre of Luxembourg (1983-2016), Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (2010-2013)

Anica Tomsic-Stojkovska, Legal adviser to the Ombudswoman of Croatia/Member of the Croatian NPM, Member of the Macedonian NPM (2011-2015)

Peter Tyndall, Ombudsman of Ireland, President of the International Ombudsman Institute

Ondřej Vala, Head of the NPM Department, Office of the Public Defender (Ombudsman) of the Czech Republic

Lora Vidović, Defender of Rights (Ombudswoman) of Croatia, Chair of the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions (2017-2019)

Lubov Vinogradova, Executive Director of the Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia

Victor Zaharia, Vice Chairperson and Focal Point for NPMs of the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture on behalf of Moldova (2013-2017)