Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji was born in Añara, Isiala Mbano, Imo State, on September 2nd, 1962. He is a Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Chile Eboe-Osuji is 62 years old.
Chile Eboe-Osuji studied at the University of Calabar where he obatined a degre in law. In 1991, he completed his masters at the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and earned his Doctorate degree in Laws from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Osuji was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986 and practised briefly in Nigeria. After achieving his Master’s degree in 1991, he worked as a barrister in Canada. From 1997 to 2005, he worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as counsel and legal officer. From 2005 to 2007, he worked in Canada as a barrister and lecturer. Working for the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2007/08 and returning to the ICTR from 2008 to 2010, he became a Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2010. During ths time, he held a cross-appointment as the principal prosecution appeals counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, in the case of Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia.
On 16 December 2011, he was elected as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He won the office in the fifteenth ballot in the Assembly of States Parties with 102 votes. He took office on 11 March 2012.
From September 2013, Eboe-Osuji – alongside Judges Olga Venecia Herrera Carbuccia and Robert Fremr – presided over the trial against Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya, who was accused of stoking a wave of killing for political gain after the country’s contested 2007 elections. Early on, he warned Kenyan media and bloggers that anyone revealing the identity of a protected witness at the Ruto trial could be guilty of contempt of court; ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had previously complained that some witnesses were being intimidated in Kenya, some of whom withdrew from the case.
Following Eboe-Osuji’s own request, the Presidency of the ICC decided to reconstitute Trial Chamber V(b) in the trial against Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and replace him with Judge Geoffrey Henderson in early 2014. However, Eboe-Osuji remains the Presiding Judge in Trial Chamber V(a) which continues to hear the case against Ruto and former Kass FM broadcaster Joshua Sang. In April 2014, his chamber issued subpoenas for several prosecution witnesses no longer willing to testify in the case. Shortly after, Eboe-Osuji told off the government of Kenya for turning to the principle of sovereignty “at every convenient opportunity, with the evident aim of frightening judges."
He became President of International Criminal Court on March 11, 2018.
He has authored two books and numerous law journal articles in international law.
He is married, with three children.
His net worth is not available.
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