Mats Melin

Mats Melin was President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden from 2011 until his retirement in 2018.

Between 2004 and 2010, he was Chief Parliamentary ombudsman, elected by the Swedish parliament. Prior to that, he was a Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court (2001-2003) and Presiding Judge at the Court of Appeal in Stockholm (1999-2001). In addition, he was a member of the Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) from 2015 to 2018 and an elected member of the Bureau of the CCJE from 2016 to 2018. Before joining the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg from 1995 to 1999 as legal secretary, Melin held various positions in Swedish courts and government departments, inter alia as legal adviser at the Ministry of Justice (1987-1994).

In 2015, he was appointed as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and in 2016 as an arbitrator at the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration.

Melin holds an LLM of the University of Uppsala, obtained in 1980.