Person

Yusuf, Abdulqawi

1948

Richter

Somalischer Jurist. PhD in international law, Institut für Internationale Studien, Universität Genf, 1980. Juristischer Mitarbeiter bei verschiedenen Nebenorganen und Sonderorganisationen der Vereinten Nationen. Richter am Internationalen Gerichtshof seit Februar 2009 und seit Februar 2015 dessen Vizepräsident. Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs for UNESCO, March 2001-January 2009. Legal Advisor, 1994–1998 and Assistant Director General for African Affairs, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna, 1998–2001. Representative and Head of the New York office of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 1992-1994. Chief of the Legal Policies Service of UNCTAD, 1987-1992. Lecturer in law at the Somali National University, 1974-1981 and at the University of Geneva, 1981–1983. Guest professor and lecturer at a number of universities and institutes in Switzerland, Italy, Greece and France.