Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio

Dutch jurist

Date of Birth: 28-Dec-1944

Place of Birth: Hoensbroek, Limburg, Netherlands

Profession: jurist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (born December 28, 1944) is a Dutch jurist and the UN's Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
She served as Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 2002 and retired from the post in 2012 and was succeeded by Gabriella Battaini-Dragoni. De Boer-Buquicchio was born in Hoensbroek, Netherlands, and studied French and French literature, and later law at Leiden University.
She specialized in international relations and labor law, obtaining her degree in 1969 with a thesis on the equality of treatment between men and women under European Community law.De Boer-Buquicchio joined the Council of Europe in 1969, and joined the legal Secretariat of the European Commission of Human Rights.
She later worked in a variety of positions in the Council of Europe system, including in the private office of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and as Deputy Registrar of the European Court of Human Rights.
She was elected Deputy Secretary General in 2002, and re-elected in 2007.