Chile Eboe-Osuji

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji is the former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as a judge in both the trial and the appellate Divisions of the Court during a tenure that lasted nine years. Before his appointment to the ICC judiciary, Eboe-Osuji served as the senior legal advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Since completing his term at the ICC, Eboe-Osuji has returned to Canada and is a Senior Fellow of the Carr Center at the Kennedy...See more

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji is the former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as well as a judge in both the trial and the appellate Divisions of the Court during a tenure that lasted nine years. Before his appointment to the ICC judiciary, Eboe-Osuji served as the senior legal advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Since completing his term at the ICC, Eboe-Osuji has returned to Canada and is a Senior Fellow of the Carr Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, among holding many other fellowships. He has an extensive record of legal scholarship and publications and is the editor-in-chief of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law . Eboe-Osuji is the 2022 recipient of the Goler T. Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law for outstanding global contribution to human rights. See less