Our council
The Council is the supreme body of the IPPF and is responsible for its administration. The Council is composed of five members, being a President, a Secretary-General, two Vice-Presidents and a Treasurer.
President
Professor Stephen Shute was appointed the 11th President in 2023. He is the first UK President of the IPPF/FIPP and the first person from the UK to serve on the IPPF/FIPP’s Council. He has been a full Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice in the UK for more than 25 years. He is currently employed at the University of Sussex. From 2014 to 2021, was a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University. Previously he worked at the University of Birmingham (where he was Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor) and at the University of Oxford (where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College). He has published very widely and his work has been cited by policy makers, law reformers, and academics throughout the world. He has also held many external roles which include serving as Inaugural Chair of the Crime Statistics Advisory Committee; Founding Member of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody; and Founding Member of the Ministerial Advisory Board on Joint Inspection in the Criminal Justice System.
Secretary General
Mary Rogan is a Professor in Law and Fellow at the School of Law, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She is the Principal Investigator of two projects funded by the European Research Council examining prison oversight. Her latest book is a collection on pre-trial detention in Europe, published by Routledge. Mary previously practised as barrister in Dublin, Ireland and is a member of Lincoln’s Inn, London, UK. She is a former Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust. Mary was the first woman to be President of the International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation and is currently its Secretary General.
Vice – President
Alejo García Basalo from Argentina, is an architect graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, with extensive expertise in the complex field of correctional architecture. Over the course of my 44-year career, he has held significant leadership roles, including serving as Building Planning Chief at the Argentine Federal Prison Service and as Project Coordinator in the Design and Construction Branch of the Secretary of Prison Infrastructure within the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina. In these positions, he was responsible for the planning and design of numerous prison facilities, contributing to the construction and design of more than six thousands prison beds within the Argentine correctional system and abroad. he also worked within the National Institute of Standardization of Argentina (IRAM) developing technical standards for prison construction.
Additionally, he has been an educator and researcher, serving as a professor in Prison Architecture at John F. Kennedy University in Buenos Aires and at the National Institute of Public Administration. In recent years, I have acted as a consultant to the Argentinean Committee for the Prevention of Torture, where I played a key role in developing National Architectural Standards for Prisons and Jails.
Currently, he continues to lecture on penitentiary history and architecture and provide expert consulting on prison architecture.
Finally joined IPPF in 2014 and is Vice-President for the period 2022-2027.
Treasurer
Véronique Erard Jaquier is a professor of victimology and legal psychology in Switzerland, where she splits her time between the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne and the School of Health Sciences Fribourg. She studied in Switzerland (social psychology and criminology) and in the United States (clinical and community psychology) and has been conducting research for over fifteen years on the health effects of intimate partner and sexual violence against women. Her work focuses specifically on how social and criminal justice institutions influence women’s violence narratives and life trajectories. This research is grounded in clinical practice within community structures, working with both victims and perpetrators of violence. Véronique has been the Treasurer of FIPP since the summer of 2022.
Vice-President
Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp (1966) is a distinguished German legal scholar specializing in criminology, crime prevention, and risk management. She studied law at the universities of Passau and Freiburg, completing her first legal state exam in 1993 and her legal clerkship at the District Court of Freiburg in 1996. Haverkamp earned her doctorate in 2002 at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg with a dissertation on electronically monitored house arrest and completed her habilitation in 2010 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich with a focus on women in prison.
From 2008 to 2013, she was a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Since October 2013, she has held the Endowed Professorship for Crime Prevention and Risk Management at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Prof. Haverkamp is actively involved in academic advisory boards, including the Scientific Advisory Board of the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony and the Advisory Board of the Kriminologische Zentralstelle (KrimZ) in Wiesbaden. Her extensive research and publications address topics such as sentencing, migration and crime, human trafficking, urban security, and evidence-based crime prevention.
She took up the position of Vice President of the IPPF effective February 14 2025.