Eibe Riedel

Prof. Eibe Riedel is a former a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Professor (emeritus) of Comparative Public Law, International and European Law of the University of Mannheim in Germany and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide/Australia. He presently is the holder of the Swiss Chair of Human Rights, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is chairperson of the board of trustees of the German Institute for Human Rights and a member of the German UNESCO Commission, a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the German Foreign Office, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, a director of the Institute for German, European and International Medical Law and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim, as well as a director of the Institute for Inland Navigation Law at the University of Mannheim. His post-doctoral thesis was entitled “Theory of Human Rights Standards”.