Wouter Vandenhole holds the chair in human rights and the UNICEF chair in children’s rights at the faculty of law of the University of Antwerp since 2007. Vandenhole serves on the editorial board of several international journals, among which the Journal of Human Rights Practice and Human Rights and International Legal Discourse.
He has taken up management functions in European research and teaching networks: he was the chair of the Research Networking Programme, Beyond Territoriality: Globalization and Transnational Human Rights Obligations (GLOTHRO), funded by the European Science Foundation (2010-2014); the vice-chair of the COST Action The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (2009-2013); and member of the executive committee of the Children’s Rights Education Academic Network, funded by the Life Long Learning Programme of the European Commission (2012-2015).
He is the lead convenor of an intensive training programme on sustainable development and human rights law, directs the Law and Development Research Group and has taken up several management functions in the Children’s Rights Knowledge Centre (KeKi).