Bogdan Aurescu

Bogdan Lucian Aurescu was born on September 9, 1973 and is a Romanian judge of the International Court of Justice, sworn in on February 6, 2024. Before his election he was a diplomat, law professor and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania between November 4, 2019 and June 15, 2023, and previously between November 24, 2014 and November 17, 2015, and as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of Romania from May 2016 to November 2019. Between 2004 and 2009 he was Romanias chief counsel in the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case, a boundary dispute with Ukraine brought before the International Court of Justice, and in November 2016 he was elected by the United Nations General Assembly as a member of the United Nations International Law Commission for a five year term. On November 9, 2023 he was elected the Eastern European representative at the International Court of Justice, receiving the votes of 117 United Nations General Assembly members against Russias candidate, marking the first time Russia would not be represented on the court; he is also a professor of public international law at the University of Bucharest, where he began teaching in 1998.