The Diplomat
The Spanish Carlos Fernández Liesa, professor of Public International Law and International Relations, has been elected member of the UN Human Rights Committee for the period 2025-2028.
“The defense and protection of human rights, State policies of Spain and key to its Foreign Action,” declared the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through a message on its official account on the social network X, in which it announced the appointment. by Fernández Liesa.
Carlos Ramón Fernández Liesa, born in Zaragoza and a graduate and doctor of Law with an extraordinary award, is a professor of public international law, a member of the Aragonese Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation and section vice president of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation.
He has served as a professor at the Civil Guard University Center, at the Diplomatic School, at the Universities of Zaragoza, Extremadura, Panteón-Sorbona and Notre Dame and general secretary and vice-rector of the Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M). He has also been director of the Francisco de Vitoria Institute, the Department of International Law and the Fernando de los Ríos Residence of the UC3M, a member of the Ethics Committee of the COE and, currently, he is an expert of the Moscow mechanism of the OSCE and vice president of the Peces-Barba Human Rights Foundation.
He directs the magazine Tiempo de Paz (MPDL) and the electronic magazine Iberoamericana (scopus), is a member of multiple scientific councils and director of the Master’s Degree in Solidarity Action and Social Inclusion. In addition, he is the author of seven monographs, has published more than one hundred scientific studies, coordinated more than twenty collective books, directed twenty doctoral theses and coordinated multiple research projects. His main lines of research are international organizations, human rights, history of international law, sustainable development and international cooperation, international protection of culture and global risks.
