Olivier De Frouville

Olivier de Frouville is a professor of public law at the University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas and director of the Paris Human Rights Centre (CRDH). He is also co-director of the Master's degree in Human Rights and International Justice and he is the author or editor of more than 20 volumes and 80 articles in various areas of international law, in particular the philosophy and theory of public international law (on a "democratic theory of international law"), international criminal law and international human rights law. 

In addition to his academic career, he has worked in various capacities in the United Nations human rights system for 30 years. As chargé de mission of FIDH from 1995 to 2006, he was appointed as an independent expert of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2008-2014), of which he was President-Rapporteur (2012-2013). 

Subsequently, he was elected a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (2015-2018) and since 2019 he has been a member of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances, of which he was also president (2023-2025).