Phillip Tahmindjis is Associate Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology and was Head of the School of Law for three and a half years. He has also held visiting professorships in Asia and North America and has worked in the Office of Legal Affairs at United Nations headquarters in New York City. He is a barrister of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and holds Arts and Law degrees from the University of Sydney, a Master of Laws degree from the University of London, and a Doctorate in Law (for a thesis on the domestic implementation of international human rights norms) from Dalhousie University in Canada.

Dr Tahmindjis has had an extensive consultancy practice, in particular as legal consultant to the federal Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commission from 1989 to 1997. He has also been a consultant to the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, Queensland Government departments, the Australian Law Reform Commission and private industry.

He is the chairperson of the Human Rights Law Committee of the International Bar Association, a member of the Council of the Human Rights Institute, the Queensland Convenor of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and a member of the Board of the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association. Previous positions include being President of the Queensland branch of Amnesty International.

The author of numerous articles and papers on discrimination law and human rights, Dr Tahmindjis is also the Consulting Editor for Australian and New Zealand Equal Opportunity Law and Practice, published by CCH Australia. His forthcoming book, The Law and Sexual Harassment: International and Comparative Perspectives will be published by Kluwer Amsterdam in 2002.

Dr Tahmindjis was appointed as a member of the Tribunal in 2000.