Jean-Paul Costa was a French jurist who lived from 1941 to 2023, born in Tunis in French Tunisia and educated at the Lycee Henri-IV, Sciences Po and the Ecole nationale d'administration. He joined the European Court of Human Rights as the judge representing France on January 1, 1999, and rose through the positions of section president and vice-president before serving as the court's president from January 2007 to November 2011, succeeding Luzius Wildhaber and being re-elected in 2009. Costa also taught at Sciences Po earlier in his career, led French negotiations over construction of the Channel Tunnel in the mid-1980s, and afterward served as president of the International Institute of Human Rights.
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