Academic Advisory Board

Professor Sir Malcolm Evans

Professor Sir Malcolm Evans

Sir Malcolm Evans has been the Principal of Regent’s Park College, Oxford, since January 2023. Until 2022 he was Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol, where he also served as Head of the School of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. His research interests centre on the international protection of human rights, with particular focus on the prevention of torture and the freedom of religion in recognition of which he was knighted in 2015.

Among his many roles, Sir Malcolm has served as a member and, from 2011-2020, Chair of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. In 2015 was appointed a Member of the Panel of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales. He has also served as a member of the Advisory Panel on Freedom of Religion and Belief of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Sir Malcolm read Law at Regent’s Park College (1979-82), returning for doctoral research (1983-87) for which he was awarded the degree of DPhil. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Bangor University and is a Learned Society of Wales Fellow.