Michael O’Flaherty
Director
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Michael O’Flaherty is Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights since December 2015 and adjunct Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
He has previously served as Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. From 2004-2012, he was a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, latterly as a Vice-Chairperson.
Mr O’Flaherty has been a member of the UK Foreign Office’s advisory bodies on freedom of expression and the prevention of torture and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs’ human rights advisory committee.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and has sat on the advisory boards of numerous human rights groups and journals internationally.
