Vitit Muntarbhorn is a professor at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He is the former executive director of Child Rights ASIANET, a regional network for the protection of children, established by UNICEF, the International Law Association of Thailand, and the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University. Professor Muntarbhorn has taught at a variety of institutions, including the Faculty of Law at Reading University in the United Kingdom, and at the Canadian Human Rights Foundation. He established child/youth legal literacy projects to educate children about their basic rights, and produced a variety of educational materials, such as cartoons and games on child prostitution, child labor and consumer rights. In 1992, he was the spokesman for the Campaign for Popular Democracy, Thailand. From 1990 to 1994, Professor Muntarbhorn also served as United Nations special rapporteur under the United Nations Human Rights Commission, Geneva, with a global mandate on the sale of children. He was a faculty member for Salzburg Seminar Session 320 on Beyond Child Survival: Promoting the Well-being of Young Children. He is a graduate of Oxford University and the Free University of Brussels, and is a barrister at the Middle Temple in London.