List of Contributors Margit Ammer is Senior Researcher at the department ‘Asylum, Anti-​discrimination and Diversity’ at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. Her main areas of expertise include the fields of asylum and migration as well as environment-​related forms of mobility. She is lecturing on international human rights law, EU asylum and migration policy, and environment and human rights at the University of Vienna. Moritz Birk is Head of the department ‘Human Dignity and Public Security’ at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights. He joined the Institute in 2009 as Assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010) and has since implemented numerous research and technical capacity projects on torture and ill-​treatment worldwide. Before joining the Institute he worked with the UNHCR and human rights organizations in Ghana, Mexico, Senegal, and Sweden. He holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law, studied law in Germany and France and is certified as organizational consultant. Kerstin Buchinger holds a position as a scientific legal officer at the Austrian Constitutional Court. She is currently being assigned referee to the Austrian Ombudsman Board (Austria’s NPM), where she is mainly entrusted with OPCAT issues. Before that, she worked as a legal researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna with a research focus on asylum and anti-​discrimination law. Nora Katona holds a degree in law from the University of Vienna and a Master degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-​University Centre in Venice. Currently, she works as a researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (Vienna, Austria) in the team Human Dignity and Public Security. Her research focuses on the prevention of torture and ill-​treatment, protection of human rights in the criminal justice system as well as trafficking in human beings. Stephanie Krisper completed her legal studies in Vienna and Paris as well as a master on human rights and democratization in Venice and Maastricht. She worked in humanitarian aid, refugee law, and as human rights expert for NGOs, the Foreign Ministry and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights where she assisted Manfred Nowak in his work on anti-​torture by coordinating a national commission monitoring places of detention (later part of the Austrian NPM). Johanna Lober LL.M.  currently coordinates the component ‘dealing with the past’ in the GIZ-​project to support stabilization and peace in Mali, where she advises the Commission for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation on a comprehensive reparation programme and commemoration policy. Previously, she worked as researcher, project expert, and co-​team leader for the Human Dignity and Public Security Team at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (Vienna) on torture prevention and human rights in the context of security and justice sector reform. As former member of a Human Rights Monitoring Commission in Vienna, she has practical experience in monitoring the rights of persons in police detention. Holding an LL.M.  in International Human Rights Law, her current interest focuses on transitional justice processes in context of fragility and ongoing conflict.