 Brian is currently Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Sweden, teaches in the post-graduate program at Melbourne University Law School and is international adviser to a number of national human rights institutions in Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.
From 1995 to 2003, as Special Adviser on National Institutions to the first three United Nations High Commissioners for Human Rights, he conducted over 200 missions to 55 countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America where governments or civil society had expressed a genuine interest in establishing an independent Human Rights Commission.
Prior to his appointment with the United Nations, Professor Burdekin was, from 1986 to 1994, the first Federal Human Rights Commissioner of Australia.
From 1978 to 1986 he was principal adviser to a former Australian Prime
Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Federal Attorney General. Prior to this he was a diplomat and lawyer. In June 1985, Professor Burdekin was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to human rights both in Australia and other countries.
He is generally considered to be the leading international expert on national human rights institutions.
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