Born 1952 in Sofia, Bulgaria
German Law degree (1975)
LL.D. Uppsala (1984)
Associate professor Uppsala (1989)
Professor of Law, Örebro University (1996-1998)
Professor in Public International Law Uppsala (2000-)
Visiting professor at Minnesota Law School, Mineapolis, Minnesota (autumn 2001)
Vice president of the Swedish Defence College (2009-)

Internal Appointments
Member of the Faculty's Research Council.
Director of Swedish Institute of International Law (SIFIR) (2005) (2008).
Faculty opponent at the defence of G. Stenberg's doctoral thesis (1989).
Member of the assessment panel at the following disputations (public defence of a thesis for the jur.dr. degree): I. Österdahl (1992), K. Nyman Metcalf (1999), C. Taube (2001), C. Johnsson (2002).
Completed the supervision and chair at the following disputations: A. Spiliopoulou Åkermark (1997), K. Åhman (2002), O. Mårsäter (2005), R. Stern (2006), J. Westerstrand (2008) and P Rinwigati (2009).
Completed the supervision of L. Lerwall (2001) as assistant supervisor and E Nilsson (2007) (the University of Umeå) as assistant supervisor.
Supervisor for the time being of F. Holst (Stockholom Univ./FHS) (assistant supervisor), M. Rand (Latvia) and M Robertsson (Stockholm Univ./FHS) (assistant supervisor).
Participating as an expert during the preparation of the study on "UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security: Making it Work - Experiences in Canada, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom with Recommendations for Sweden's Implementation" - Gunilla de Vries Lindestam. (Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala 2005).

External and International Assignments
President of the International Society of Military Science (ISMS) (November 2009-November 2010).
Member of the Board of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, (2010- ).
Assessment of applications for research projects by the Östersjö Stiftelsen (2008, 2009).
Assessment of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (2008).
Project Manager (Swedish Team) EU Legal Experts Group, FRA (2008- ).
Member of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law (2007-).
Referee of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (2008).
Council of Europe Expert in Kyiv, Ukraine (2007).
Member of the jury for the Irmgard Coninx Stiftung Award, Berlin (2007).
Member of the assessment panel for the public defence of Jo Stigen's doctoral thesis, University of Oslo (2006).
Assessment of applications for the Academy of Finland (2006).
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies mission to Central Asia Region in 2005. (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) (Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in 2006). Assistance to capacity building in areas of International Humanitarian Law promotion.
Member of an appointment commission for positions at the University in Stockholm (2005) and at the University in Oslo (2006), University in Tromsø (2006).
Participating as a lecturer and member of the judgement panel at the 4th Session of the Women's Human Rights Training Institute for Lawyers, Sofia 2006.
Member of the reviewing board at the disputation of Sari Kouvo, the University of Gothenburg (2004), the disputation of Johanna Nilsson, Lund University (2009) and the disputation of Martin Mits, Lund University (2010).
Member of the Board for the Martin H:son Holmdahl scholarship in human rights (2003-).
Member of the examining commission for the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (2003).
Member of the Board of the Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University (2001-2004).
Vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross (2002-), Member of the board of the Swedish Red Cross (1999-).
Chair of the Board of the Swedish NGO Foundation for Human Rights (2004-2007).
Expert at the Research Council of Norway (2004-).
Expert at NorFa (2003-).
Member of the Board of Woman to Woman Foundation (KtK) (1998-2002).
Member of the Committee on Feminism, International Law Association (ILA)( 1996-2004).
Swedish member of the EU network of independent experts on fundamental rights (2002-).
Member of the expertjury for the Jean-Pictet moot court in international humanitarian law (2000).
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition (1990-1991).

Research and Teaching Interests
Public international law, international protection of human rights, humanitarian law and refugee law and democracy in european context.

Teaching
Democracy and Human Rights in European Context: Democracy and Human Rights in European Context (Director of course)
International Human Rights, Refugee and Humanitarian Law (Director of course)
Term Course 6 - Public Law