Magali Lafourcade is a Magistrate and the Secretary General of the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights. She is a graduate from a major business school (ESCP Europe) and Sciences Po, and is a doctor of comparative law. Magali Lafourcade worked as an examining magistrate between 2008 and 2013 and was Deputy Secretary General of the CNCDH between 2013 and 2016 before becoming its Secretary General. She is also a senior expert for the European Agency for Fundamental Rights. Since 2009, she has been a lecturer at Sciences Po. She also leads the continuing education session of judges «Racism in France» provided by the National School of Judiciary. As a Member elected by the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions, Magali Lafourcade chaired the Sub-Committee for the Accreditation of National Human Rights Institutions, a body under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Commissioner between 2017 and 2020. She is the author of the reference book “Les droits de l'Homme // Human Rights”, collection “Que sais-je?”, published in 2018 by Presses Universitaires de France.