Siracusa International Institute

Ambassador, Special Envoy to the OIC, Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue, Sweden;

Vice President, AIDP

Vice President, University LUISS “Guido Carli”, Rome (Italy); Vice President, AIDP;

President, Italian Section of the AIDP

Attorney, Siracusa (Italy)

Judge, High Court of Appeal of Cairo,

Cairo (Egypt)

Judge Khaled M. Ahmed is a Judge in the High Court of Appeal of Cairo (Egypt), seconded since Feb 2020 to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya as Senior Rule of Law Officer. He graduated from Ain Shams University School of Law in 1989 with LLB degree, and then obtained his LL.M in International Criminal Law and Human Rights at the University of Georgia School of Law, USA. Judge Ahmed is qualified legal practitioner for 32 years. He has extended experience in the implementation of justice reform programs in the Arab region including Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, Yemen; extensive experience undertaking reviews and producing comprehensive reports of justice reform initiatives in the MENA Region; broad ranging substantive experience in areas of human rights, judicial independence, legal and judicial reform, international criminal law, gender and juvenile justice. He has a solid experience working with the United Nations in Arab regional countries: between 2005 and 2006, he was the Senior Legal Affairs Officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq; between 2006 and 2009, he joined the Programme on Governance in the Arab Region, UNDP-POGAR, as Senior Regional Expert. In 2009 he joined the European Commission as Senior Judicial Consultant and served in Egypt, Syria and Yemen. Recently, Judge Ahmed joined  the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) as senior rule of law officer leading the rule of law component. Judge Ahmed has authored and co-authored a number of award winning legal books and compendiums in Arabic in the fields of international criminal justice and human rights.

Deputy Secretary General, AIDP;

Attorney at Law,

Chicago (USA)

Head of Unit, General Criminal Law,
Directorate General Justice and Consumers,
European Commission

Mayor of Noto,
City of Noto,
Siracusa (Italy)

Mayor of Siracusa,

City of Siracusa (Italy)

Deputy Secretary General, AIDP;

Assistant Professor of Criminal Law,

Ain Shams University, Cairo (Egypt)

Regional Councillor for Education and Training,
Sicilian Region,
Palermo (Italy)

Vice President in charge of scientific coordination, AIDP;
Dean and Professor of European and International Criminal Law,

Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance,

University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg)

Katalin Ligeti is Dean and Professor of European and International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxemburg. Prior to that, she was a Reader at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), and a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. She has a Master in Legal Studies from the Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), an LLM from Bristol University (UK) and a PhD in criminal law from the University of Hamburg (Germany).
She is Vice-President in charge of scientific coordination of the Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP), as well as Member of the Management Committee of the European Criminal Law Academic Network and Member of the editorial board of Eucrim and NJECL.
Prof. Ligeti has lead several research projects funded by the EU Commission and participated as expert in several impact assessments studies of the Commission. She was a member of the European Justice Forum, and acted as expert to several committees of the European Parliament (LIBE, CRIM), of the OECD and the ICTY.

Treasurer, AIDP; Magistrate; Deputy Head of the Statute and Deontology Office,

Directorate of Judicial Services, Ministry of Justice, Paris (France)

Head of the Department of Institutional and Legal Affairs,

European Police Office (EUROPOL),The Hague (The Netherlands)

Commissioner, Free Consortium of Municipalities of Siracusa
(former Province of Siracusa),
Siracusa (Italy)

Rector, University of Catania,
Catania (Italy)

Deputy Secretary General, AIDP;
Prosecutor, Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes

against  Humanity, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Professor of International Law,

Faculty of Law, Middlesex University,

London (United Kingdom)

Professor William A. Schabas is professor of international law at Middlesex University in London. He is also professor of international human law and human rights at Leiden University, emeritus professor of human rights law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and honorary chairman of the Irish Centre for Human Rights, invited visiting scholar at the Paris School of International Affairs (Sciences Politiques), honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, visiting fellow of Kellogg College of the University of Oxford, and professeur associé at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Prof. Schabas is a ‘door tenant’ at the chambers of 9 Bedford Row, in London.
Professor Schabas is editor-in-chief of “Criminal Law Forum”, the quarterly journal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. He is President of the Irish Branch of the International Law Association and chair of the International Institute for Criminal Investigation. From 2002 to 2004 he served as one of three international members of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Professor Schabas has worked as a consultant on capital punishment for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, and drafted the 2010 report of the Secretary-General on the status of the death penalty (UN Doc. E/2010/10).
Professor Schabas was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2007. He has been awarded the Vespasian V. Pella Medal for International Criminal Justice of the International Association of Penal Law, and the Gold Medal in the Social Sciences of the Royal Irish Academy.

Secretary General, AIDP;

Associate Professor in Compliance and Law Enforcement,

University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

President, AIDP;

 Professor of Criminal Law,

 Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Faculty of Law, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

John Vervaele was honored Master of Laws (J.D./LL.M) and Master in Criminology (MA) at the University of Ghent (Belgium). Between 1980 and 1985 he was assistant researcher in criminal law and criminal procedural law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). From 1985 till 1987 he was senior researcher at the Belgian Ministry of Justice. In 1987 he left for the Dutch Institute for Social and Economic Law Research (NISER) at the University of Utrecht. Following the successful defense of his doctorate thesis in 1988 he was in 1990 appointed Assistant Professor in criminal law and criminal procedure and secured the prestigious PIONIER subsidy of the Dutch Council for Scientific Research for the ‘Enforcement of European Law’ project (1991 1997). He established in 1991 the Centre for Enforcement of European Law at the University of Utrecht and was subsequently appointed Professor/Director in Law Enforcement and European Integration in 1992. Since 1996 he is also Professor in Economic, Financial and European Criminal Law at the University of Utrecht. Since 1996, he is Professor in European criminal law at the College of Europe, Bruges. Between 2004 and 2007, he was vice-dean of the Utrecht Law School. Between 2007 and 2010, he was vice-president of Utrecht University for Latin America. In 2014, he was elected President of the International Association of Penal Law (AIDP).
He is actually teaching criminal procedure and human rights, European criminal law, comparative criminal law, economic and financial criminal law and European integration. The main topics in his research field are: enforcement of Union law; standards of due law, procedural safeguards and human rights; criminal law and procedure and regional integration; comparative economic and financial criminal law; terrorism and criminal procedure. He has realized a lot of research in this areas, both for Dutch Departments and European Institutions and worked as well as a consultant for them.
He is regularly teaching as visiting professor in foreign universities, in Europe and overseas, mostly topics touching upon economic and financial criminal law and European criminal law. He has been teaching as a visiting Professor at Universities in Italy (Rome, Parma, Trento), in Spain (San Sebastian, Salamanca), in Switzerland (Freiburg), in Belgium (Liège), in Colombia (Bogotà, Ibague), in Mexico (D.F) and in the United States (Columbia Law School in New York and American University in Washington DC).

Vice President, AIDP;

Professor of International Criminal Law,

College for Criminal Law Science,

Beijing Normal University (China)

Honorary President, AIDP;

Professor of Criminal Law and Director,

Basque Institute of Criminology,

University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian (Spain)

Honorary President, Supreme Court of Cassation,
Rome (Italy)

Honorary Vice President, AIDP;

Former Judge, Vienna (Austria)

Former Attorney General, Supreme Court of Cassation,
Rome (Italy)

President Emeritus,
Constitutional Court,
Rome (Italy)

Honorary Vice President, AIDP;
Professor Emeritus of Law,
University of Nantes
Nantes (France)

Former Professor of Criminal Law and
Former Director of the Department of Criminal Law,
University of Palermo
Palermo (Italy)

Honorary Vice President, AIDP;
First Honorary President, Court of Cassation;
Former President, International Society of Social Defence (SIDS);
Former Advocate General, Court of the European Communities
Paris (France)

Former President of the Egyptian Parliament;
Former President of the International Parliamentary Union;
Former Minister of Education;
Professor of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, Cairo University;
Former Vice Rector and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cairo
Cairo (Egypt)

Vice President, AIDP;
Judge, Kosovo Special Chambers,
The Hague (Netherlands)

Judge, Italian Constitutional Court;

Professor of Criminal Law,

University of Milan “Bocconi” (Italy)

Francesco Viganò is Judge of the Italian Constitutional Court since february 2018 and Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Milan since 2004.
Born in 1966, he obtained his degree in Law at the University of Milan, in 1989. He studied Criminal Law at Munich University, Germany from 1991 to 1993 and obtained a PhD in Criminal Law from Pavia University in 1997. He served as a Research Fellow in the University of Brescia (1995-2001), where he lectured Comparative Criminal Law from 1999 to 2001 and served as an Associate Professor of Criminal Law from 2001 to 2004.
He is Secretary General of the Société Internationale de Droit Pénal, Editor-in-chief of the law reviews “Diritto Penale Contemporaneo” and “Diritto penale contemporaneo – Rivista trimestrale”, Advisor of the Editorial Body of the Chilean law review “Política Criminal” and Deputy Director of the Department of Law Studies “Cesare Beccaria”. He is currently fellow of the Kompetenznetzwerk Recht der zivilen Sicherheit in Europa (KoRSE) at the Freiburg Albert-Ludwigs-University, Germany.
He has been member of the Minister of Justice’s Commission on Reform of the Statute of Limitation (2012-2013) and member of the Prime Minister’s Commission on Implementing the Fight against Organised Crime (2014).
He is regularly invited as a teacher by the Italian High School for the Judiciary and has given lectures at several international institutions. Since 2012 he regularly teaches at a master in criminal law at the Centro de Estudios de Derecho Penal of the Universidad de Talca in Santiago (Chile). He speaks Spanish, English, German and French.