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Nigeria Nominates Taoheed Olufemi Elias For Presidency of The International Court Of Justice, ICJ
Nigeria has nominated Taoheed Olufemi Elias for the Presidency of The International Court Of Justice, ICJ, colloquially known as The World Court, located in The Hague, Netherlands.
Taoheed Olufemi Elias is the son of the late World Court President, Professor (Justice) Taslim Olawale Elias (Taslim), who was Nigeria’s Federal Attorney General and Minister of Justice 1960 to 1966, Chief Justice of Nigeria 1972 to 1975, and President of same World Court from 1982 to 1985.
Taslim’s son, the World Court nominee, Olufemi Elias, studied at Corona School and then Igbobi College, both in Lagos, Nigeria before obtaining a law degree from the University of Oxford, a Masters of Laws from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from University College London.
He was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1988.
He is the President of the Administrative Tribunal of the OPEC Fund for International Development, and Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank Administrative Tribunal.
Taoheed Olufemi Elias is a former President and member of the Appeals’ Committee of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. He advises international organisations and states on legal issues, including litigation before international courts and tribunals.
He is a Member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Hong Kong Regional Arbitration Centre of the Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation.
Olufemi Elias is also a visiting Professor in international law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London and has taught at the King’s College London and the University of Buckingham. He is also the author of several publications in the field of International Law and was awarded the Honorary Membership Award of the American Society of International Law(ASIL) in recognition of his contributions to international law.
He was Registrar (United Nations Assistant Secretary-General), of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT)* until 30 June 2020.
Elias has held several positions including being a Judge for Staff Appeals, Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Legal Adviser and Director, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague; Executive Secretary (Registrar), World Bank Administrative Tribunal, Washington D.C.; Senior Legal Officer, OPCW; Special Assistant to the Executive Secretary, United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), Geneva and Legal Adviser, Governing Council Secretariat, UNCC. Elias was previously a candidate in the 2020 International Court of Justice judges election. He was not elected.
In early 2022, Elias was appointed by the International Monetary Fund as a member of an external panel to strengthen institutional safeguards in the wake of a data scandal involving IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva during her time at the World Bank.
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