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The Geneva Human Rights Hub benefits from the guidance of an experienced Board composed of distinguished professionals from across the human rights field. Drawing on their expertise in international law, diplomacy, academia and civil society, Board members provide strategic counsel to ensure the Hub's work remains relevant and aligned with the evolving needs of the field. Their insights help shape priorities and strengthen the GHRH's role as a space for dialogue and collaboration in Geneva.

Patrick Mutzenberg

President

Patrick Mutzenberg holds a PhD in Human Rights from the Faculty of Law of the University of Grenoble (France).He is the founder and former Director (2008–2025) of the Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR Centre), an NGO dedicated to strengthening civil society engagement with the Human Rights Committee, the treaty body responsible for monitoring the implementation of the International Coven...

Virginia Brás Gomes

Vice-President

Mrs. Virginia Brás Gomes served for 14 years as a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, including as Vice-Chair, Rapporteur and Chair of the Committee. She worked as a senior social policy adviser at the Ministry of Employment, Solidarity and Social Security of Portugal and was a member of the Portuguese National Human Rights Committee until 2021.She has extensive exp...

Clément Voule

Member

Clément Voule is currently serving as a member of the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the human rights situation in the South and North Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.He is a jurist and human rights expert, and the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. Prior to his appointment as Specia...

Olivier de Frouville

Member

Olivier de Frouville is Professor of Public Law at the University of Paris–Panthéon-Assas and Director of the Paris Human Rights Center (CRDH). He also co-directs the Master’s programme in Human Rights and International Justice. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and over eighty articles across various fields of international law, with a particular focus on the philosophy and the...