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Mikołaj Pietrzak Dean of the Warsaw Bar Association Mikołaj Pietrzak is the former Chairman of the Human Rights Council of the Polish Bar Council. As of November 2016 he is the Dean of the Warsaw Bar Association. In 2016, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as a member of the Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, and as of May 2018 he is the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees. In 2018 he was awarded the Human Rights Award of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). Mikołaj Pietrzak is a member of a number of international organizations for lawyers including the European Criminal Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers in the United States of America and the Legal Experts Advisory Panel for Fair Trials International. He was a permanent representative of the Polish Bar with the CCBE in the Human Rights Commission and the CCBE Permanent Deputation at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. He is one of the founders of the Prof. Zbigniew Hołda Association, of which he is currently a member of the board of directors. He specializes in criminal law, constitutional law and protection of human rights. His experience includes legal representation in criminal cases and defence in cases regarding terrorism, espionage, murder, business crimes, corruption and fiscal crimes.