# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-r-spano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:05:50.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-r-spano"
name: "Robert R. Spano"
slug: "robert-r-spano"
description: "Róbert Ragnar Spanó is an Icelandic-Italian jurist, judge, and former president of the European Court of Human Rights. He has been a partner and barrister at the multinational law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher since the end of this tenure as president of the court in October 2022. He started his tenure as president of the court on 18 May 2020, succeeding Judge Sicilianos from Greece. Before beginning his service on the court on 1 November 2013, he served provisionally as parliamentary ombudsman of Iceland and dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland. Spano's mandate as a judge and president of the court ended on 31 October 2022 when he was succeeded by Judge Siofra O'Leary."
tagline: "Icelandic judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/President_Robert_Spano.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1972-08-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.74456533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump