Professor Ray Murphy is a professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway. In addition to his position at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, he is on the faculty of the International Institute for Criminal Investigations. He was the EU Fundamental Rights Agency Senior Expert for Ireland and a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Human Rights Institutes. Ray is a former member and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International (Ireland). He has also conducted training on behalf of the ICRC, No Peace without Justice, Amnesty International, the UN, and the International Institute for Humanitarian Law and the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre (Canada). Ray is serving his second term, having been first appointed to serve from November 2014 – October 2019.