Verena Benedict-Orlicek
holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and studied at the Faculty of Commerce at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is currently in charge of Partner Cooperation/External Relations as well as the Course Modul V.4. “Managing a Human Rights Project” at the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Christina Binder
Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich since April 2017; before, University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna
David Deutsch
Legal trainee at the Vienna Higher Regional Court, previously a student assistant at the Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law at the University of Vienna, and a research associate at the Vienna Forum for Democracy and Human Rights
Gregor Heißl
Judge at the Regional Administrative Court for the Tyrol (responsible, among other things, for complaints regarding measures) and private lecturer in constitutional and administrative law at the University of Innsbruck
Clara Kammeringer
holds a bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht. In summer 2024, she completed her LL.M. in Legal Theory from the European Academy of Legal Theory at Goethe University Frankfurt. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Amsterdam investigating strategic climate litigation’s direct and indirect consequences for democratic participation and representation. Clara initially joined the Vienna Forum as an intern in September 2021. Since she has worked there as a legal researcher on several projects.
Manfred Nowak
Professor for Human Rights and Head of the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights at the University of Vienna; Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice; Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) 1992–2019
Curriculum Vitae
Hannes Tretter (chairperson)
Associate Professor for Fundamental and Human Rights, University Vienna (ret.); Co-Founder and Co-Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM) 1992–2019; Deputy Head, Management Bord, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights 2007–2012
Curriculum Vitae
Marion Wisinger (chairperson)
Historian, Board Member of the Austrian League of Human Rights; President of PEN-Club Austria and Editor-in-Chief of the League’s Magazine for Human Rights