Dr Chloë Gilgan is a Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Lincoln. She completed her PhD in 2019 at the York University, Centre for Applied Human Rights. She holds a JD from New York Law School and is a member of the New York State Bar. Ms Gilgan’s research is multidisciplinary including international human rights law, migration, foreign policy, and international relations norm theory to address the protection gaps for people fleeing mass atrocities. 

Zoë Grossi is a PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant in International Law at Catholic university of Leuven, Centre for Global Governance Studies. She is currently working on her PHD. Her research focuses on the concept of mental harm in international criminal law. Previously, she was teaching the course of ‘The Law of International Organisations’. She also had experience with rights of refugees in the Flemish region.

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation at Queen Mary University of London. She joined Queen Mary University of London in 2014, after seven years as a Professor of Law and Criminology at King’s College London. She completed her PhD in Criminology at the University of Cambridge. She has extensive experience conducting research in challenging environments, with fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Egypt, Kurdistan, Palestine/Israel, Tunisia, and Myanmar. Professor Green is Founder and Director of the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) – a multi-disciplinary international initiative to work on research-based knowledge about criminal state practices and resistance to them.

She was elected as a regional deputy in the Brussels Parliament in 2014 and was appointed as a federal senator in 2017, where she focused on promoting policies of openness and solidarity. Prior to this, she led the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif as president from 1985 to 1996, working on cultural and educational initiatives. With the NGO named ‘Actions in the Mediterranean’, she has directed projects such as Israel-Palestine: Better Understanding, which engages youth in exploring the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Women Leaders of Tomorrow, aimed at fostering women’s political involvement in Belgium and the Maghreb. Her work continues to focus on intercultural dialogue and empowering underrepresented groups

Prof. Nicaise is emeritus professor in education and topics around the education system at catholic University of Leuven. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on poverty and inequalities in the education system. He taught economics, social profit management, labour economics, sociology of education, and social security economics for so long time. Besides his professional activities, he chairs the Belgian Resource Centre for the Fight against Poverty, and he is involved in many EU research projects, the latest one is about early diagnoses of migration flows for proactive policy response.

Mr Vande Lanotte is a famous lawyer, professor, and former politician. He holds a PhD in Law from Ghent University, where he served as professor of constitutional law and director of the Human Rights Centre. In his political life, he served as Deputy Prime Minister, mayor of Ostend, and is currently holding an honorary position of Minister of State. He also chaired the Turkey Tribunal project, which aims to address and assess widespread human rights violations in Turkey through expert testimonies and legal evaluations. He remains an influential figure in the field of human rights and law.

He is a practising lawyer in Brussels, and he has extensive experience in international and human rights law. He has been involved in significant legal projects, including the Turkey Tribunal, and was the lawyer in the famous ECtHR case Yüksel Yalçınkaya. He is also registered at both the New York Bar and the Ghent Bar in Belgium. In addition to his legal practice, Mr Heymans has served as a guest lecturer in International Criminal Law at the Royal University of Law and Economics in Cambodia. He is actively involved in the League for Human Rights in Belgium, and he continues to contribute to human rights advocacy.