Marco Sassòli, Chair of the Board of Geneva Call. He is since March 2004 professor of international law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and chairs the board of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. From 2001-2003, he has been a regular professor of international law at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada, where he remains an associate professor. He graduated as doctor of laws from the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is member of the Swiss bar. He has worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the headquarters, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the Middle East and the Balkans. He has also served as executive secretary of the International Commission of Jurists and as registrar at the Swiss Supreme Court. He has published on international humanitarian law, human rights law, international criminal law, the sources of international law and state responsibility.

Priscilla Hayner, Vice-Chair of the Board of Geneva Call. She was a co-founder of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), and until 2010 served as a program director and then head of the ICTJ Geneva office. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor to the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and is engaged in research on the challenges of accountability in peace negotiations. Ms Hayner served as human rights advisor for the Kenyan National Dialogue and Reconciliation in 2008, at the request of the Panel of Eminent African Personalities. She is an expert on truth commissions and has written widely on official truth seeking in political transitions, including the second edition of Unspeakable Truths, covering forty truth commissions, in 2010 (Routledge). She was previously a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and a program officer for the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, New York.

Bertrand Reich, Secretary of the Geneva Call Board, is a Lawyer and Member of Geneva Bar Association. He is involved in Geneva's economic and political issues. He was has worked as a lawyer with organizations supporting refugees and asylum seekers.

Tom McCarthy, Member of the Board, Former Senior Advisor, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He still conducts mandates on human rights, mainly with the World Organization Against Torture.

Elisabeth Decrey Warner, Member of the Board (see: ).

Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Visiting Professor at University College London since 2003. She was a member of the Institute Faculty from 1994-2009. A Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (Oxford) (2002), and a Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (2003), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Université Panthéon Assas, Paris II (2000), and the University of California, Berkeley (1995), she has also given guest lectures in a number of institutions abroad. The special courses she has given have included the Hague Academy of International Law, the European University Institute, Florence and the Institut des droits de l’homme, Strasbourg. Her teaching, expertise and publications cover such topics as United Nations law, Security Council sanctions, terrorism, international responsibility, treaty law, international dispute settlement, human rights, refugee law and international criminal law. Professional activities have included acting as Counsel for the Arab League in the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in 2004, and advising governments, and private law and consulting firms. She has also contributed as an expert to the work of international organisations, such as the UN, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNODC, WHO, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). She serves on the advisory councils and editorial boards of select journals and law institutions.

Eric Sottas, Member of the Board, is Director of the World Organization Against Torture in Geneva.

Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold holds a doctorate in ethnology and spent many years in Africa as a researcher and expert in development cooperation. She established and led the information, documentation and education centre for Third World studies in Switzerland and lectured at different Universities on politics of gender and development. From 1995 to 2007 Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold was a member of the Swiss National Council and a member of the Council of Europe. Key aspects of her work are migration and refugee policies compatible with human rights, the fight against domestic violence, violence against children, trafficking in humans especially children, as well as organ trade. Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold is the President and initiator of the association “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Price 2005” which now became “Peace Women Across the Globe”.