Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua

Mindua studied law and political science in Kinshasa, Nancy-Université, Strasbourg and Geneva. He received his doctorate in international law from the University of Geneva in 1995. ==Career==

Mindua served first as a Legal Officer and Chief of the Judicial Proceedings Support Unit at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha from 1996 to 2001. He was also ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Switzerland in Bern and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2001 to 2006. During his tenure in Geneva, Mindua held a number of multilateral posts, including Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Chairman of the Group of 77 (G77) and China, and Coordinator of the Group of 21 at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. Also in 2018, he presided over hearings of Alfred Yekatom, a former militia leader accused of alleged atrocities against Muslims in the Central African Republic. In 2020, he was part of the three-member panel who judged that former Congolese vice president and militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who had been acquitted of war crimes by the court in 2018, was not entitled to any damages or compensation for his 10-year stint in the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU). ==Other activities==

Mindua is also a professor at the Universities of Kinshasa and Geneva. He teaches public international law and international criminal law. He is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. ==References==