Aoife Nolan

Aoife Nolan is an Irish human rights lawyer who is Professor of International human rights law at the University of Nottingham. She is President of the Council of Europe's European Committee of Social Rights, the leading European monitoring mechanism on economic and social rights, having joined the Committee in 2017 and served as vice-president in 2021-2. She is an academic expert at Doughty Street Chambers where she co-leads the Children's Rights Group and sits on the Steering Group of Doughty Street International. She has led international research projects and acted as an expert advisor to a wide range of international and national organisations and bodies working on human rights issues, including UN entities, the Council of Europe, the World Bank, multiple NHRIs and NGOs, as well as governments. In addition to her academic role at Nottingham, she is currently a visiting professor at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE, and at Ulster University. In 2025, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts on the basis of her "world-leading expertise and practice on the rights of children, especially in relation to the socio-economic impacts of poverty and cost of living". In June 2026, she was elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, following nomination for membership by the Government of Ireland.

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