Prof Dr iur. Beate Rudolf has been Director of the German Institute for Human Rights since 2010. From March 2016 to March 2019, she was also Chair of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), the world association of national human rights institutions. Previously, she taught as a junior professor of public law and gender equality law at the Faculty of Law at Freie Universität Berlin and headed the sub-project "International Law Guidelines for Governance in Weak and Disintegrating States" at the Collaborative Research Centre "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood". Her research focuses on fundamental and human rights as well as principles of state structure under international law, European law and German constitutional law. Her research and teaching activities in these areas (at the Universities of Bonn, Düsseldorf, Tulane Law School in New Orleans and Freie Universität Berlin) have been complemented by practical experience in human rights work, including as a complainant representative before the European Court of Human Rights and many years of voluntary work within the German Women Lawyers Association and the European Women Lawyers Association, of which she was Vice President until the end of 2011. In 2017, she received the Margherita von Brentano Prize from the Free University of Berlin "for her outstanding work in the field of human rights and women's rights in particular".
