The members of the Commission are:
Front row: Sukhbold Sukhee (Mongolia), Tatiana Eddie Razafindravao (Madagascar), Åsa Molde (Sweden), Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza (Poland), Noor Ibrahim Al-Sada (Qatar), Katarína Šmigová (Slovakia), Robin Mc Neil Love (United Kingdom).
Back row: Mohamed Mahmoud Al Kamali (United Arab Emirates), Alfredo Labbé (Chile), Holger Federico Martinsen (Argentina), Thilo Marauhn (Germany), Rachid Belhadj (Algeria), Mateus Kowalski (Portugal), Vaios Koutroulis (Belgium).
In conformity with Article 90 of Protocol I, the depositary - Switzerland - convenes at intervals of five years a meeting of representatives of the High Contracting Parties for the purpose of electing the Members of the Commission. The Members are elected by secret ballot from a list of persons to which each of the High Contracting Parties may nominate one person.
The 15 members of the Commission are to be of high moral standing and acknowledged impartiality. They are elected to five year terms by those States parties which have accepted the competence of the Commission. They serve in their personal capacities, an obligation which is reinforced by the solemn declaration that they all make that they will exercise their functions as members impartially, conscientiously and in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol and the rules including those concerning secrecy. Among the current members are medical doctors, judges, high ranking military experts, diplomats and scholars of international law.
The Members of the Commission serve in their personal capacity and hold office until the election of new Members at ensuing meeting. In case of a casual vacancy, the Commission itself shall fill it, having due regard to the provisions of Article 90 of Protocol I and to the Rules of the Commission.
According to the Rules of the Commission (Rule 1, 2), before taking up his / her duties, each Member shall make the following solemn declaration:
I will exercise my functions as a Member of this Commission impartially, conscientiously and in accordance with the provisions of the Protocol and these Rules, including those concerning secrecy.
The current Members were elected at the meeting of the High Contracting Parties which was held on 19 November 2021, in Berne.
The President, the 1st Vice-President and the three Vice-Presidents constitute together the Bureau. They were elected by the fifteen members of the Commission during the first Annual Meeting of the new Commission (28 March 2022, virtually).
