Pere Pastor Vilanova
Pere Pastor Vilanova is an Andorran judge and jurist. He has been a judge at the Constitutional Court of the Principality of Andorra since 18 November 2024.
Education
Pere Pastor Vilanova graduated from Sciences Po Toulouse in 1990 with a degree in politics. He also holds a master’s degree in business, administrative and financial studies from the Montpellier Business School, which he obtained in 1992. He then continued his studies at the École nationale d’administration de Paris and was awarded a master’s degree in public administration in 1994. In 2002 he obtained a PhD in public law from the University of Toulouse 1 Capitole.Professional career
After three years as head of the Andorran Ministry of the Interior he became a trial judge in 1998. He held this position until October 2011, when he became the first judge of Andorran nationality to sit on the Supreme Court of Andorra. In parallel, between 2005 and 2015, he was a member of the Bioethics Committee of the Council of Europe.In April 2015 he was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to be a judge of the European Court of Human Rights. He took office on 1 November 2015. He was elected Section President on 19 September 2022 for a two-year term. In October, he was elected a judge of the of the Principality of Andorra by the Consell General. He thus became the to be appointed to the Constitutional Court by the Consell General. He took office on 18 November for a term of eight years. He was appointed Vice-President for a two-year term.
Since 2005, Pere Pastor Vilanova has also been a lecturer at the University of Toulouse-Capitole, a role for which he has been awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, in particular for the dissemination of Andorran law within the French university system. He has been an elected member of the Board of Directors of Sciences-Po Toulouse since October and a member of the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judges to the ECHR since July 2025.