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Anne Ramberg Having received her Law degree (LLB) from the University of Stockholm in 1976, Anne Ramberg was a practicing lawyer until 2000, when she was appointed Secretary General of the Swedish Bar Association, a position she held for twenty years. She serves currently as ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights, and as conciliator and alternate member of the Bureau, to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE. She is Co-Chair of the International Bar Associations Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and a member of the IBA Management Board. She is the Chair of the Uppsala University Board, Chair of the Stockholm Criminology Prize, member of the board of Civil Right Defenders, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Southern Africa Litigation Center, the Swedish Section of the Nordic Conference of Jurists. She is a Trustée in the Eyewitness project. She is also Vice Chair of Stiftelsen Skogssällskapet. Anne Ramberg has been member of the Board of the Stockholm University, the Swedish Judicial Appointments Council, the Ethics Advisory Council of the National Police Board, the Swedish Press Council, Advisory Council Swedish Economic Crime Authority, alternate member of the Appeal Board for Aid for Credit Institutions, Council member of the Association for Legislative Theory, and Chair of Chief Executives of European Bar Associations, (CEEBA). She has served on the board of the Central and Eastern European Law Initiative Institute (CEELI) and the Council on Basic Values established by the Swedish government. She has been a council member and treasurer of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC). She was Board member of a law library, Juridiska biblioteket, the Micael Bindefeld Foundation in Memory of the Holocaust and a law research foundation, the Emil Heijnes stiftelse för rättsvetenskaplig forskning. She was Chair of the Stockholm Center for the Rights of the Child. Anne Ramberg has been representing the Swedish Bar in the International Bar Association’s (IBA) council. She has been Co-chair of the IBA Rule of law Action Group, member of IBA Nomination Committee, and council member of IBAHRI TRUST. Anne Ramberg holds H.M. the King´s Medal for ”distinguished contribution to the Swedish Judicial System” and is granted the distinction Juris Doctor Honoris Causa at Uppsala University, Sweden. In 2018, she was appointed as honorary member of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), and was the same year also awarded the IBA’s Award for “extraordinary leadership in promoting human rights and the rule of law throughout the world”. In 2019 she was awarded the Finnish Administrative Supreme Courts medal for her work on behalf of the Nordic Bar Associations and international human rights. The same year she was awarded the Kerstin Hesselgren Prize.