Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Judge Mohamed Bennouna

Mohamed Bennouna was born on April 29th 1943 in Marrakesh, Morocco. He is a doctor of International Law and a professor of International Law. He earned his diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law and now he is a member of the Institute of International Law.

After his graduation from his school, he became a professor and later dean of the faculty of law in Rabat from 1972 to 1984. From 1992 to 1995 Bennouna served as a Chairman of a panel of the United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva. Then for the next five years he served as an ambassador and a deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. From 1991 to 1998 he was the director general of the Arab Institute in Paris. Bennouna was a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague from 1998 to 2001. He was an ambassador and a permanent representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations from 2001 to 2006. He was a Chairman of the Sixth Committee to the Fifty-ninth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, G77, and China at the United Nations in 2003. He was also a member of UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) from 2002 to 2006.

After he served as a Judgead hocof the International Court of Justice for the dispute between the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Niger from 2002 to 2005, he became a judge of the International Court of Justice since 2006.

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