Chaloka Beyani

Chaloka Beyani is a Zambian lawyer and legal scholar who serves as Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and as an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. He was formerly an associate professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has worked and published extensively in international human rights law, international criminal law and international humanitarian law, as well as on issues of humanitarian assistance and population displacement, particularly internal displacement. In 2023 Beyani was nominated by Zambia, co-nominated by the Netherlands, for election to the International Court of Justice, after Zambia had previously put him forward for the 2017 International Court of Justice judges election and withdrawn his name before the candidate selection process; had he been elected in 2023 he would have been the first Zambian judge at the court, but after five rounds of voting in the Security Council and one round in the General Assembly he was not elected.