• Co-Chairperson, Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• Attorney-General, Republic of Indonesia (1999- 2001)
• Chairperson, Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (1997-1999)
• Member of Parliament (GOLKAR)

Vitit Muntarbhorn

• Co-Chairperson, Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• Professor of Law, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• U.N Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Winner of the 2004 UNESCO Prize for Human Rights Education
• U.N Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (1990-1994)
• Author of Thailand’s first report for the U.N convention on the CEDAW

Kek Galabru

• Chairperson, Cambodian Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• Founder and President, Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
• In 1987, she facilitated the first negotiations between King Norodom and Hun Sen (then Foreign Minister). This led to the signing of the Paris Peace Accords in 1991, which ended the civil war in 1991.

Dato Param Cumaraswamy

• Chairperson, Malaysian Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (1994-2003)
• Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists (1990-2000)
• President, Transparency International Malaysia (Jan. 2005- Feb. 2006)
• Chairperson, Malaysian Bar Council (1986-1988)
• President, The Law Association for Asia and the Pacific or LAWASIA (1993-1995)
• Winner of the 2005 Gruber Foundation Justice Award (University of Columbia Law School)

Wigberto Tañada

• Chairperson, Philippine Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• President, Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement
• Convenor, Fair Trade Alliance
• Convenor, Gathering for Peace
• Member of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines (1995-2001)
• Senator (1987-1995)

Sriprapha Petcharamesree, Ph.D

• Chairperson, Thai Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
• Director, Office of Human Rights Studies and Social Development, Mahidol University
• Professorial lecturer for Political Science, Human Rights Studies Program, Mahidol University
• Member, Subcommittees on Human Rights Situation Assessment; Child Rights; and Administration of Justice and Legislation of the Thai National Human Rights Commission
• Fellow, Asia Leadership Fellow Program 2007
• Senior Program Officer, Department of Technical and Economic Cooperation, Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1982-1986)
• Founder, PRORIGHTS Foundation