Emil Ruffer - chair

Emil Ruffer has been the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe since 2016.

Before this, he was Deputy Director (2007 – 2008) and then Director (2008 – 2016) of the EU law Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic.

He graduated from the Law Faculty of the Charles University in Prague (Ph.D. degree in European Law in 2007), studied at the Cardiff Law School (Wales) and Law Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin and holds a diploma in English and European Law from the University of Cambridge.