Born on 19 November 1950 in Stockholm, Sweden

• Law and Economics degrees, University of Lund, 1973
• Law clerk at the District Court of Härnösand and the County Administrative Court and the Authority of the Region of Västernorrland, 1973-1976
• Associate judge and judge at the Administrative Court of Appeal of Gothenburg, 1976-1978
• Deputy Secretary to the Governmental Commission against Unnecessary Bureaucracy, Ministry of Local Government, 1978-79 and to the Governmental Committee on Administrative Law, Ministry of Justice 1979-1981
• Legal Administrator in the Secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights 1981-1991
• Head of Section, Personnel Division, Directorate of Administration, Council of Europe 1991-1993
• Head of Division and then Deputy to the Secretary of the European Commission of Human Rights, 1993-1997
• Deputy Secretary to the European Commission of Human Rights, November 1997-1998
• Section Registrar of the new European Court of Human Rights, 1998-2002
• Deputy Registrar of the Court, 2002-2005
• Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights, 2005-2015.