Congratulations: Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf
The Governing Board of DILA congratulates Dr Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf on his election to the International Court of Justice earlier this month.
Dr Yusuf is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of the African Foundation for International Law and is a member of DILA’s Advisory Board.
Judge Yusuf was educated at the Somali National University where he obtained his Dr Juris. He subsequently obtained a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the University of Geneva. He taught at the Somali National University from 1974 to 1981, and then at the University of Geneva from 1981 to 1983. From 1975 to 1980. He served as Somalia’s delegate to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
From 1987 to 1992, Judge Yusuf was Chief of the Legal Policies Service of UNCTAD before becoming its representative and Head of its New York Office from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 2001, he served as Legal Advisor, then Assistant Director for African Affairs to UNIDO in Vienna. Judge Yusuf has also been guest Professor and Lecturer at a number of universities and institutes in Switzerland, Italy, Greece and France.
Judge Yusuf is Founder and General Editor of the African Yearbook of International Law and a member of the Institut de droit international (Geneva). He was also one of the founders of the African Foundation for International Law and Chairman of its Executive Committee. Dr.Yusuf is fluent in Somali, English, French, Arabic, and Italian.
For background on the recent election of the judges to the ICJ, see:
Judge Yusuf’s Reply to DILA’s Congratulatory Message
I thank you for your very kind and warm words of congratulations as well as for your wishes of success on the occasion of my election to the International Court of Justice.
I am very proud of my association with the DILA and hope that we will be able to establish more effective working relations between DILA and AFIL (African Foundation for International Law) of which I am currently the Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Kindly convey my thanks to all the members of the Board and Advisory Council of DILA.
I hope we will keep in touch.
Yours sincerely
Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf
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