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Wolfgang Benedek currently holds a position as Head of Institute of International Law and International Relations and as Director of the European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy of the University of Graz. His main research interests are in the fields of human rights, human security and the regulation of the internet as well as international economic law where he has a focus on the WTO and Global Governance. He also has a specific interest in South-Eastern Europe and Africa. He has been involved in several research projects funded by national and European research foundations. He is the executive editor of the European Yearbook on Human Rights. He is teaching at all levels in international law and human rights law, international economic and development law, human rights in the Balkans, human security and the governance of the information society. He is long-time chair of the NGO World University Service (WUS) Austria.

The EIUC Secretary General since 2009 is Florence Benoît-Rohmer of the University of Strasbourg. She has served as Vice-President of EIUC from 2002 till 2008, and as French national director of the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MA) since its inception in 1997. Florence Benoît-Rohmer holds a PhD in Public Law. She was President of the Université Robert Schuman (URS), Strasbourg, from 2003 to 2008. She is Professor at the Law Faculty in Strasbourg, Director of the Master programme in Human Rights at the University of Strasbourg. She has been acting as human rights expert for the Council of Europe and EU, was member of the European Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights set up by the European Commission, and is currently president of the Scientific Committee of the Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU. She is also member of the scientific committees of several international journals specialised in human rights, and in particular minority rights.