Speaker- Theodoor Cornelis van Boven

Theo van Boven (1934) is professor emeritus of international law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. He served in various United Nations capacities in the field of human rights. He was the Netherlands representative on the UN Commission on Human Rights (1970 - 1975). Further, he was the Director of the UN Division of Human Rights (1977 - 1982).

As an independent expert Theo van Boven was member of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission's Special Rapporteur on the Right of Victims to Reparation (1986 - 1990), member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1991 - 1999) and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2001 - 2004). Theo van Boven was the first Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1994) and he was head of the Netherlands delegation to the UN Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome, 1998) .

Theo van Boven has been actively involved in the work of civil society organizations and institutions. Thus, he was a Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission of Jurists; he was President of the Netherlands Society of International Law and he still is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism, Tokyo.

Theo van Boven holds honorary doctoral degrees from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, State University of New York at Buffalo, and Universidad de Buenos Aires.

國籍：荷蘭

現職：荷蘭馬斯特里赫特大學國際法榮譽教授

學歷：荷蘭萊頓大學法學博士，1967
美國德州南衛理公衛大學比較法碩士，1960
荷蘭萊頓大學法學碩士，1959

獲獎記錄：
 Laureate of the Louise Weiss Prize, Strasbourg (1982)
Doctor honoris causa of the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (1982), the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands (1988) and the University of New York at Buffalo, USA (1991)
Recipient of the Right Livelihood Honorary Award, Stockholm, (1985)
Recipient of the 1996 Human Rights Prize of the International Service for Human Rights, Geneva
Recipient of Netherlands Royal Decorations (Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau (1974), Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1986), Commander in the Order of Orange Nassau (1999)
Recipient of the Clara Wichmann medal, Amsterdam, (2001)

經歷：
Official of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1960 - 1977)
Lecturer in Human Rights Law, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (1967 - 1977)
Netherlands representative on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1970 - 1975)
Director of the Division of Human Rights of the United Nations (1977 - 1982)
Visiting Professor at Harvard School of Law (1987) and New York University School of Law (1990)
Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (1975 - 1976, 1986 - 1991)
Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Rights to Restitution, Compensation and Rehabilitation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1990- 1993)
Member of the Group of Independent Experts of the International Labour Organization to Monitor Sanctions and Other Measures against Apartheid (1990 - 1993)
Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (1994)
Head of the Netherlands delegation to the United Nations Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome, 1998)
Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1992 - 1999)