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Membership

 

Under Regulation 22 of the Staff Regulations ("Staff Manual", pdf, 3428 kb) of the OECD:

  • The Administrative Tribunal is composed of 3 judges and 3 deputies from outside the Organisation.
  • They are appointed by the Council for a period of 3 years (renewable) from among persons of proven impartiality who are jurists or otherwise highly qualified in labour law or civil service law or in the field of labour relations at national or international level. 
  • The Council also appoints the Chairman from among the judges, having regard to their judicial experience. 
  • It is provided that the members of the Tribunal shall be of different nationalities and that, overall, their selection shall ensure that the main legal systems of the member countries of the Organisation are represented.

As of 1 January 2014, the Administrative Tribunal of the OECD is composed as follows.

Chairman

  

Judges

  

Deputies

Ms Louise Otis
Judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal and at the Superior Court of Quebec

Nationality: Canadian

   

Professor James Crawford
Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge

Nationality: Australian

   

Ms Hedvig Forsselius
Deputy Director, Ministry of Employment of Sweden, former Assistant Judge, Eskiltsuna District Court of Sweden

Nationality: Swedish
   

Professor Luigi Condorelli
Professor of International Law at the University of Florence

Nationality: Italian

  

Ms Marion Eckertz-Höfer
President of the Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig

Nationality: German
       

Mr Pierre-François Racine
Judge at the Conseil d'Etat, the French Supreme Administrative Court

Nationality: French

The current mandate of the Tribunal expires on 31 December 2016.