Anne Ramberg

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.

Her current positions include serving as conciliator and alternate member of the Bureau to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, and as ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights. She is Co-Chair of the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) , board member of the Swedish section of the Nordic Conference of Jurists, member of the board of Civil Right Defenders, Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Southern Africa Litigation Center, International Bar Association Management Board and European Agency for Fundamental Rights.  She is the chair of the board of Uppsala university.

Anne Ramberg has held several national and international positions in the legal area such as member of the Board of the Stockholm University, member of the Judicial Appointments Council, Chair of the Stockholm Center for the Rights of the Child, member of the Ethics Advisory Council of the National Police Board, member of the Swedish Press Council, Chair of Chief Executives of European Bar Associations, (CEEBA), and Co-Chair of the Rule of law Action Group. She was a member of the International Bar Association (IBA) Management Board, member of the Council on Basic Values established by the Swedish government, member of the Advisory Council Swedish Economic Crime Authority, and an alternate to the Appeal Board for Aid for Credit Institutions. She also served as Council member and Treasurer of the International Legal Assistance Consortium (ILAC), and Council member of the Central and Eastern Law Initiative Institute (CEELI).

In addition, Anne Ramberg has been a board member of several trusts and other associations such as, Micael Bindefeld Foundation in Memory of the Holocaust, the Association for Legislative Theory. She has been a council member of the IBA Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), IBAHRI TRUST, and the Rule of Law Forum.

Anne Ramberg received her law degree (LLB) from the University of Stockholm in 1976 and has written extensively on a variety of legal issues both in legal and general publications. She holds H.M. the King’s Medal for ‘‘distinguished contribution to the Swedish Judicial System.”