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Guillaume Vieillard

France

Judge and Head of the Institutional and Diplomatic Affairs Office, Department for International and European Affairs, Ministry of Justice

Biography

Judge Guillaume Vieillard holds a doctorate in private international law. He is currently head of the office of institutional and diplomatic affairs at the Delegation for European and International Affairs of the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice (France). In this capacity, he is responsible for organising and monitoring the diplomatic agenda of the Minister of Justice and the Ministry of Justice's relations with international organisations. In terms of substance, he provides the Ministry of Justice with expertise on issues and negotiations relating to the rule of law, democracy, the fight against discrimination, equal access to justice and fundamental rights. It represented France in October 2024 at the OECD Global Round Table on Equal Access to Justice 2024 (‘Reinventing Justice: Building Trust through People-Centred Justice’). Its office is a member of the OECD Advisory Group on Equal Access to Justice and of the Fundamental Rights, Citizens' Rights and Free Movement of Persons Group (FREMP/EU) in Brussels. He is the national contact point for the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the rule of law and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). He was a judge at the Cayenne Judicial Court (2018-2021) before joining the Ministry of Justice as civil affairs coordinator for the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2021 - 2022) and then head of the law of obligations office at the Directorate of Civil Affairs and Seals (2022 - 2023). He previously worked for more than ten years in Vienna (Austria) at the United Nations as Legal Officer to the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) and then as Legal Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO). He began his career as a lecturer and Deputy Director at the Institute of International Business Law in Cairo (Egypt), a branch of the Universities of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and Paris II Panthéon Assas, after gaining experience in a law firm in Sofia (Bulgaria).
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