Manfred Nowak is an Austrian international human rights lawyer and professor with a distinguished career. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010, conducting crucial missions and authoring major reports, including one on Guantánamo. Since 2016, he has been the Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice, and he is also the Scientific Director of the Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights. Professor Nowak co-founded and formerly co-directed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna. His extensive experience also includes roles as a judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1996–2003), a UN expert on enforced disappearances (1993–2006), and the Independent Expert for the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty. He was also a member of the international panel of experts that adopted the Yogyakarta Principles.