Prof Philip Alston
(Australia) Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University; UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions.

Florence Butegwa
(Uganda) Advocate; specialist in women's human rights and co-founder of Women in Law and Development (Africa).

Roger Errera
(France) Conseiller d'Etat; member of the Conseil supérieur de la magistrature.

Professor Yash P Ghai
(Kenya) Member of the English Bar; Professor of Law, Universities of Warwick and Hong Kong; Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia.

Asma Khader
(Jordan) Minister of State and Government Spokesperson; Lawyer.

Viviana Kristicevic
(Argentina) Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), New York.

Professor Harold Koh
(USA) Dean, Yale Law School.

Marek A Novicki
(Poland) President of the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights; former member, European Commission on Human Rights.

Sonia Picado
(Costa Rica) President of the UN Voluntary Trust for Victims of Torture; Advocate; former judge of the Inter-American Court.

Prof Gerard Quinn
(Ireland) Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway; former vice-president of the European Social Charter Committee.

Dr Mary Robinson
(Ireland) President, Ethical Globalization Initiative; former President of Ireland; former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Prof Martin Scheinin
(Finland) UN Special Rapporteur on Terrorism and Human Rights; Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Director of the Institute of Human Rights at Abo Akademi University, Finland.

Suriya Wickremasinghe
(Sri Lanka) Barrister, Attorney-at-Law.