Kuniko Ozaki

Kuniko Ozaki (Japanese尾崎 久 仁 子, Kuniko Ozaki, born February 20, 1956) is a Japanese diplomat. After holding various senior positions in the Department of Justice and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their home country as well as international organizations, including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, it operates since 2010 as a judge at the International Criminal Court.

Life

Kuniko Ozaki was born in 1956 and completed her academic training at the University of Tokyo, where she earned a BA degree in 1978, and at the University of Oxford, where she 1982, a study of international relations than M.Phil. finished. Then began a diplomatic career in the Japanese Foreign Ministry, where she and 1986 in the legal department and then to 1989 in the Department initially worked for the Marine. By 1993, she then worked in the Department of Economic and Environmental Affairs and from 1993 to 1995, the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations. Then she moved to the Department of Justice, where she served from 1995 to 1998 as a specialist in criminal law matters and belonged in this function, the Japanese delegation to various contract negotiations in this area, including the preparatory committee for the establishment of the International Criminal Court. By 1999, they then headed the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Refugee Affairs.

In addition, she was in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1991-2001 Director of the Department for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. From 2001 to 2004 she taught as a professor at Tohoku University and from 2003 to 2004 at the University of Kobe. She then worked from 2004 to 2006 in the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna and worked there for the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Nuclear Suppliers Group responsible. By 2009, she served as Director of Business Affairs of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime offices and from April of the same year in the Japanese Foreign Ministry as instructed Ambassador for the Convention on Biological Diversity.

In November 2009, Kuniko Ozaki was elected a judge to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. They ran it according to the provisions of the Rome Statute on the candidate list B for candidates with qualifications in the field of international law, and sat down by the first ballot. Their term of office began in January 2010 and runs for the remaining term of their regular contemporary predecessor, who died in Fumiko Saiga until 2018.