Guido Raimondi

Guido Raimondi (2011)

Guido Raimondi (born October 22, 1953 in Naples ) is an Italian lawyer and judge. Raimondi was President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from November 2015 to May 2019 .

Career

Guido Raimondi was born on October 22, 1953 in the Italian port city of Naples. He completed his law degree at the University of Naples , where he obtained his Master of Laws in 1975 . Raimondi was then from 1976 to 1977 university assistant at the first chair in international law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Naples. In 1977 he was appointed judge, which he remained until 1986. That year he was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work in the diplomatic legal service.

In 1989, Raimondi first came to an international court when he was appointed co-representative of the Republic of Italy both before the ECHR and the European Commission for Human Rights , two bodies of the Council of Europe . From 1991 to 1992 he was subsequently a member of the Appeals Chamber of the Western European Union based in London. In the years that followed, Guido Raimondi became a member of numerous steering commissions and advisory bodies of the Council of Europe, especially the office of the steering committee for human rights issues, which he chaired from 1999 to 2000.

Within Italy, Guido Raimondi served from 1997 to 2002 as Advocate General at the Italian Court of Cassation and from 1998 to 2003 a member of the inter-ministerial committee on human rights issues. In 1998 he was made a full member of the Appeals Chamber of the Western European Union in Brussels. From 2001 to 2003 Raimondi worked several times as an Italian ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights, and in 2002 he was appointed judge of the Italian Court of Cassation.

In 2003, Guido Raimondi became Deputy Legal Advisor at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, and in 2008 Legal Advisor and Director of the Legal Services Office at that organization. On May 5, 2010, Guido Raimondi was finally nominated by Italy for a nine-year term as judge at the European Court of Human Rights and was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . On November 1, 2012, he was promoted to Vice-President and Section President within the Court of Justice, and on November 1, 2015, the judges of the ECHR elected him President for a three-year term. In this position he was replaced by his successor Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos on May 5, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Guido Raimondi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short résumé of Guido Raimondi , presented on the ECHR website (English)