Kuniko Ozaki
Kuniko Ozaki ( Japanese 尾崎 久 仁 子 , Ozaki Kuniko ; born February 20, 1956 ) is a Japanese diplomat . After various leading positions in the Justice and Foreign Ministry in her home country as well as in international organizations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime , she has been a judge at the International Criminal Court since 2010 .
Life
Kuniko Ozaki was born in 1956 and completed her academic training at the University of Tokyo , where she obtained a BA degree in 1978 , and at the University of Oxford , where she studied international relations as an M.Phil in 1982 . finished. She then began a diplomatic career in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , where she worked in the legal department until 1986 and then in the marine affairs department until 1989. She then worked in the Department of Economic and Environmental Affairs until 1993 and from 1993 to 1995 in the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations . She then moved to the Ministry of Justice , where she acted as a specialist in criminal law matters from 1995 to 1998 and, in this capacity, was a member of the Japanese delegation to various contract negotiations in this area, including the preparatory committee for the establishment of the International Criminal Court . Until 1999 she headed the Department for Refugee Affairs in the Ministry of Justice.
In addition, she was Director of the Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 2001 . From 2001 to 2004 she taught as a professor at Tōhoku University and from 2003 to 2004 also at Kobe University . From 2004 to 2006 she worked in the permanent representation of Japan at the international organizations in Vienna , where she was responsible for the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group . Until 2009 she was Director of the Contracting Department of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and from April of the same year at the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Ambassador for the Convention on Biological Diversity .
In November 2009, Kuniko Ozaki was elected judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague . In accordance with the requirements of the Rome Statute, she ran for candidates on list B for candidates with qualifications in the field of international law and prevailed in the first ballot. Her term of office began on January 20, 2010 and ran for the remaining regular term of office of her deceased predecessor Fumiko Saiga until March 11, 2018. She also remained in office and even resigned from her appointment as Japanese ambassador to Estonia in 2019, in order to be able to continue her work as a judge.
literature
- Ozaki, Kuniko (Japan). In: Election of judges to fill two judicial vacancies of the International Criminal Court. Annex: Alphabetical List of Candidates (with Statements of Qualifications) Document No. ICC-ASP / 8/21 / Add.1. Published by the Assembly of the Contracting Parties of the International Criminal Court, 2009, pp. 26–31 ( PDF file , approx. 143KB)
Web links
- International Criminal Court - Judge Kuniko Ozaki (Japan) (English, with picture)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ozaki, Kuniko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 尾崎 久 仁 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese diplomat and judge at the International Criminal Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1956 |