Olivier de Schutter

Olivier De Schutter (LL.M., Harvard University ; Ph.D., University of Louvain (UCL)) is Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and at the College of Europe (Natolin). He is also a Member of the Global Law School Faculty at New York University and is Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Abo Akademi University and Institute for Human Rights at Turku (Finland), and at Columbia University, where he is currently teaching. In 2002-2006, he chaired the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, a high-level group of experts which advised the European Union institutions on fundamental rights issues. He has acted on a number of occasions as expert for the Council of Europe and for the European Union. Since 2004, and until his appointment as the **UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food**, he has been the General Secretary of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) on the issue of globalization and human rights.