Walter Suntinger

Personal Information:

born 1965 in Döllach, Carinthia

Academic Education:

• Law degree at Graz University
  
• Language studies (Spanish, French, Portuguese) at Graz University
  
• Systemic Change Management Certificate from Steinbeis University Berlin/Trainconsulting Vienna
  

Professional Career:

• 1991 - 1998: legal officer at UNHCR, research staff at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, service as conscientious objector at Amnesty International Austria
• Since 1998: free lance human rights consultant and trainer
  
• Since  1996: several human rights courses at academic institutions, e.g. study abroad program of University of Oregon, Vienna University, Johns Hopkins University - Bologna Center, European Peace University/ Stadtschlaining, University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt, Vienna Master of  Human Rights
• Member of the Human Rights Advisory Board to the National Preventive Mechanism in Austria

Thematic Focus:

• Practical application of human rights in a variety of contexts
• Preventive human rights monitoring of  places of  deprivation of liberty (National Preventive Mechanisms under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture)
  
• Human rights based police reform
• Human rights based approaches to business and development cooperation
• Design and delivery of human rights trainings
  
• Academic teaching and interdisciplinary reflection on human rights and human rights practice

Contact:

walter.suntinger@hrcv.at