Professor George Katrougalos is the UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order and Chair of the Coordination Committee of UN Special Procedures. He is Professor of Public Law at Democritus University of Thrace and Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law. A former Foreign Minister of Greece, he has held several key government positions, including Minister of Labour and Social Solidarity, Minister for European Affairs, and Minister of Administrative Reform. He was a Member of the European   and Greek Parliament. At the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) he chaired the Unified Left Parliamentary Group and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and the Arab World. Professor Katrougalos has published extensively on comparative constitutional law, globalization, and social rights and lectured widely as at many universities of Europe, Asia and the America.