French judge Mattias Guyomar was elected, on Monday, April 28, president of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Monday, April 28, and will take office in late May following judge Slovenian Marko Bosnjak, the court announced in a statement.
Enarque, former chamber president on the Council of State, Mattias Guyomar, 56, has been a judge at the ECHR since June 2020, and chaired one of the five sections since May 2024. He has been elected for a three -year term. He succeeds Marko Bosnjak who arrives at the end of his mandate as a nine -year judge and chaired the institution since July 2024.
Mattias Guyomar began his career as a rapporteur in the Conseil’s Litigation section at the Council of State, between 1996 and 1999, before being appointed general rapporteur of the High Council for Integration, between 1999 and 2002.
He then exercised his duties in the conflict court between 2002 and 2011, before returning to the Council of State, first as assessor until 2016, then as president of the 10e Chamber, which takes care of the disputes linked in particular to culture, public freedoms and overseas.
Third French judge as president of the ECHR
At the same time, he also assumed the functions of secretary general of the surveys commission, from 1998 to 2020, and carried out various functions in education, notably at Paris-XI University and at Paris-II Panthéon-Assas University.
Mattias Guyomar is the third French judge to access the Presidency of the ECHR. Jean-Paul Costa (2007-2011) and René Cassin (1965-1968) assumed this function before him.
The ECHR, which sits in Strasbourg, is an international tribunal responsible for sanctioning violations of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, a text signed by 46 States gathered within the Council of Europe.