Biografier

Olivier De Schutter (LL.M., Harvard University ; Ph.D., University of Louvain (UCL)) is Full Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin) and since May 2008 the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food. He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and is Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Abo Akademi University and Institute for Human Rights at Turku (Finland), and at Columbia University.

Torkel Opsahl, (1931 – 1993) Professor of constitutional and international law, University of Oslo from 1965. Member of the European Human Rights Commission between 1970 and 1984. At the same time, from 1977 to 1986, member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.