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Michael O'FLAHERTY Director, FRA - European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna

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1995-1996 Secretary, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UN Centre for Human Rights, Geneva
1996-1997 Expert Advisor, Human Rights under the Dayton Peace Accords, UN, Sarajevo
1997-1998 Independent Consultant, Human Rights
1998-2000 Chief, UN human rights programme in Sierra Leone, Freetown
2000-2002 Coordinator, Programmes in the Asia-Pacific region, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva
2002-2003 Senior Research Officer (Child Rights), UNICEF Innocent Research Centre, Florence
2003-2013 Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co-director,Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham
2004-2012 Member (latterly Vice-chair), United Nations Human Rights Committee, Geneva
2011-2013 Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Belfast
2013-2015 Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway
since 2015 Director, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna