Professional profile
Judge Abdul G. Koroma was a member of the International Court of Justice from 1994 until 2012, and a member of the International Law Commission from 1982 until 1994. He served as Chairman of the Forty-Third Session of the International Law Commission in 1991.
He was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sierra Leone to the United Nations, the European Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity. He has also had extensive experience as a member of various legal committees in the United Nations, the Organization of African Unity and the African Union.
Since 2006, he has been a member of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland.
He was Chairman of the International Labour Organization Mission to Fiji, which examined labour disputes between the Government of Fiji and trade unions in light of applicable ILO Conventions and Recommendations.
He also served as Chair of the African Union’s Panel of Experts on the settlement of territorial and boundary disputes between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan.
Judge Koroma is also a member of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.