Dr. Chile Eboe-Osuji, Former ICC President (2018-2021), Joins the Zoryan Institute’s Academic Board of Directors

TORONTO – The Zoryan Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Chile Eboe-Osuji, the distinguished international jurist and former President of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to the Institute’s Academic Board of Directors effective October 1, 2024!

Dr. Eboe-Osuji was the 4^th President of the ICC from 2018 to 2021; he served as an ICC judge from 2012 to 2018. He also served as the Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2010 – 2012) with earlier work at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Before joining the international public service, he practiced law in courts in Canada and Nigeria.

Currently, Dr. Eboe-Osuji is the Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at the Toronto Metropolitan University, where he is also the Special Advisor to the President of the University. Dr. Eboe-Osuji has several affiliations with universities as a sessional lecturer and visiting professor including the University of Windsor, Stanford Law School, University of Toronto Law Faculty, Santa Clara University, the Carr Centre at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

He received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and his LLM from McGill University, where he also received his Canadian law accreditation after completing his LLB degree from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Dr. Eboe-Osuji also has an extensive record of legal scholarship and publications, including the books International Law and Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts and Protecting Humanity (ed).

Dr. William Schabas, OC, Zoryan Board Member said: “Judge Eboe-Osuji has had a long and distinguished career in international justice, rising to the most senior position of President of the International Criminal Court. He brings huge experience as well as great wisdom to Zoryan’s Academic Board.”

M. Greg Sarkissian, OC, President of the Institute, welcoming Dr. Eboe-Osuji to the Academic board had this to say “The stakeholders of Zoryan Institute take pride in having internationally renowned scholars on its Academic Board. No doubt, a scholar of Dr. Eboe-Osuji’s stature joining the board will help take the Institute’s work to new heights.”