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Prof. Ryszard Piotrowicz

By August 27, 2021

Ryszard Piotrowicz has been a professor in the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University since 1999. From 1988-99 he taught at the University of Tasmania, where he eventually became Dean of the Law Faculty. He specialises in migration law. He was a member of GRETA, the Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings from 2013-20, Vice-President from 2017-20. He also served two terms as a member of the European Commission’s Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings (2008-15). He is Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia, Visiting Professor in Migration Law at Viadrina University, Frankfurt-Oder, and a Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative, University of London. He is an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He has acted as a consultant on human trafficking for the Council of Europe, IOM, OSCE, UNHCR, EU and ICMPD, as well as national governments and NGOs, and has conducted training programmes on human trafficking in many countries. He has published extensively on the law relating to human trafficking and migration. He is a member of the Wales Anti-Slavery Leadership Group, and is currently working on a number of projects relating to legal issues concerning human trafficking. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Refugee Law.