Perfil de Gauthier de Beco
Area of specialisation
- - UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- - Right to inclusive education
- - Right to work
- - National implementation and monitoring mechanisms
- - Economic, social and cultural rights
- - Right to education
- - Non-discrimination
- - National human rights institutions
- - Human rights monitoring mechanisms
- - Human rights indicators and impact assessments
Gauthier de Beco obtained his PhD in Law at the University of Louvain in 2009, with a thesis on ‘Non-Judicial Mechanisms for the Implementation of Human Rights in European States’. He also obtained an LL.M. at the University of Nottingham in 2004 and a Master's Degree in Law (cum laude) at the K.U.Leuven in 2003.
Gauthier de Beco is post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Human Rights and teaches a course on 'EU Human Rights Law and Policy'. He was previously a teaching assistant at the University of Louvain (2005-2009) and taught human rights at University College London (2011-2012). He was a trainee at the International Criminal Court (2004-2005), legal advisor at the Belgian Ministry of Justice (2009-2011) and head of unit at the Belgian Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism (2012).
Gauthier de Beco has been advising the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Belgian government and several NGOs and is regularly invited to speak at international conferences. He is the Belgian expert in the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED). He is also on the Legal Research Panel of Interights and the Advisory Council of the Children's Rights Knowledge Centre.
Gauthier de Beco has widely published in the area of international human rights. He is on the editorial board of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme and reviews articles for several other legal journals. An overview of his most recent and his fortcoming publications can be found here.
