Sir Malcolm Evans is currently Professor of Public International Law at the University of Bristol, and Principal-elect of Regent’s Park College, Oxford. His particular areas of focus include torture and torture prevention, the protection of religious liberty under international law and the law of the sea, in particular the law relating to maritime boundaries. From 2009 - 2020 he was a member, and from 2011- 2020 Chair, of the UN Subcommittee for Prevention of Torture (the SPT). He is also a member of the UK Foreign Secretary’s Human Rights Advisory Group and a Member of the Statutory Panel of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA). From 2002 – 2013 he was a member of the OSCE ODIHR Advisory Council on the Freedom of Religion or Belief. He is General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and Co-Editor in Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He is an Editor of the journals Torture, Ocean Development and International Law and Religion and Human Rights.