Robert Wintemute
 Robert Wintemute grew up and studied economics and law in Canada, practiced law in New York, and is now a professor of Human Rights Law in the School of Law, King's College London. He teaches European law, Human rights law, and anti-discrimination law.
He has participated in sexual orientation discrimination cases, as the lawyer for third-party interveners or amici curiæ, the lawyer for the applicants, or as an expert witness, in
- the European court of Human Rights (cases such as Karner v. Austria, E.B. v. France, Schalk & Kopf v. Austria, X & others v. Austria),
- the Court of Justice of the European Union (Maruko),
- the International Court of Human Rights (Atala v. Chile),
- the Supreme Court of Argentina (Claudia Castro & Maria Rachid),
- the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (Goodridge) and
- the Supreme Court of the United States (Lawrence v. Texas).
With Joke Swiebel, he was co-president of the international conference on LGBT human rights that was part of the Montréal 2006 World OutGames. In November 2006, he was one of the experts invited to Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, to draft the Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
At the Antwerp conference, Robert Wintemute facilitated the panel discussion on migration and safety.
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