Pavlo Pushkar is a Head of Division at the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe. The Department’s mandate covers advice to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on its tasks of supervision over measures to be taken under the judgments of the European Court as well as advice to member states on measures that they intend to take or have taken to comply with the Strasbourg Court’s judgments. His work also covers response to and accountability for gross and serious human rights violations.
Dr. Pushkar worked at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights from 2002 to 2016 as a senior lawyer and a non-judicial rapporteur. Before joining the Council of Europe, he worked as an advocate in the areas of international litigation and arbitration and as a public servant at the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Dr. Pushkar holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice. He is a graduate of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Law Faculty (BA and MA in Laws, with honours); the Nottingham University School of Law (LLM in International Law); Queens Mary College University of London (International Arbitration).