International Advisory Committee
The activities of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy are supported by our International Advisory Committee. Comprised of leading figures in various related fields, the Advisory Committee assists the Centre in encouraging new research on human rights and drug issues, acting as peer reviewers for the International Journal on Human Rights and Drug Policy and organising seminars and events at various universities around the world. The members of the International Advisory Committee are:
Judge Martin Vazquez Acuña – Court of Appeal on Criminal Matters, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Advisor to the Chief of Cabinet of Ministers on drugs and drug trafficking
Dr Massimo Barra – Founder, Villa Maraini Foundation
Dr David Bewley-Taylor – School of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University
Prof Neil Boister - School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr Joanne Csete – Associate Professor, Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Richard Elliott – Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Anand Grover - Indian Lawyers Collective; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
Prof Sofia Gruskin – Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights; Director, Programme on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health
Prof Roger Hood – CBE, Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
Prof Paul Hunt – Human Rights Centre, University of Essex; former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health (2002-2008)
Dr Ursula Kilkelly – Senior Lecturer in Law, University College Cork
Prof Manfred Nowak – Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, University of Vienna; former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004-2010)
Dr Dainius Puras - Head and Associate Professor, Center of Child psychiatry and Social pediatrics, Vilnius University; Chair, Human Rights Monitoring Institute, Lithuania; Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2007-2011.
Prof William A Schabas, OC – Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland Galway
Rebecca Schleifer – Advocacy Director, Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch
Baroness Vivien Stern – Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Prison Studies, King’s College London
Prof Gerry Stimson – Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Prof Allyn Taylor – Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Prof René Urueña – Director, International Law Department, Faculty of Law, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Dr Philip Veerman – Psychologist at Bouman mental health services in Rotterdam and an independent expert of the (juvenile) courts in the Netherlands
Prof David S Weissbrodt – Regents Professor and Fredrikson & Byron Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
Prof Wu Zongxian – Director, Institute of Crime and Corrections; Director, Research Center of Community Corrections College for Criminal Law Science of Beijing Normal University