Siobhán Mullally is the Established Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway. In 2020, she was appointed by UN Human Rights Council as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially women and children, reporting both to the UN Human Rights Council and the UN General Assembly. Siobhán was President of the Council of Europe Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings
(2017-2019), First Vice President (2015-2017) and an elected Member (2013-2019). She was a Commission Member of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (2014-19). She is a member of the National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague.
She has worked as an adviser and consultant on human rights, migration and asylum law, gender and justice sector reform for UN bodies and international organisations in many parts of the world, including in Ethiopia, Timor-Leste, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kosovo.