rapporteur

[rap-awr-tur, ra-pawr-tœr]

noun

plural

rapporteurs 

1. a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body.

rapporteur

/ ˌræpɔːˈtɜː /

noun

1. a person appointed by a committee to prepare reports of meetings or carry out an investigation

Word History and Origins

Origin of rapporteur¹

1490–1500; < French, derivative of rapporter. See rapport, -eur

Word History and Origins

Origin of rapporteur¹

C18: from French, literally: recorder, reporter

Example Sentences

Last month the United Nations General Assembly received a report from Reem Alsalem, its special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calling for global abolition of surrogacy.

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Through innumerable “special rapporteurs” and working with many U.N. offices created over decades to pressure Israel, the council annually produces more resolutions assailing Israel than the entire rest of the world.

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The former holiday resort was visited by the UN special rapporteur for extreme poverty as part of a fact-finding mission in 2018.

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On June 30, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, condemned major travel platforms that promote tourism which "legitimises annexation".

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On Wednesday, Richard Bennett, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan, wrote on X that he was "deeply concerned" by reports of civilian casualties and displacement because of the clashes.

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