Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, born 12 September 1948 in Eyl, Somalia, is a Somali lawyer and judge who served on the International Court of Justice from 6 February 2009 to 30 September 2025, including as Vice President from 2015 to 2018 and as President from 2018 to 2021. He holds a Juris Doctor from the Somali National University and a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and studied at the University of Florence. Before his election to the Court he held legal positions at UNESCO, UNIDO and UNCTAD, worked as a university lecturer, and served as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
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