Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights expert, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010.

In 2016, he was appointed Independent Expert leading the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty.

[6] From 6 to 9 November 2006, he presented at the international panel at Gadjah Mada University for adoption of Yogyakarta Principles and has become one of the 29 signatories.

[7] In February 2008, Nowak was a founding member of the 'Research Platform Human Rights in the European Context' at the University of Vienna.

The most important expert functions are the following: Nowak is author of more than 600 publication in the field of constitutional, administrative and international law, human rights as well as development studies.