United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Hocking for two terms, first on 15 May 2009 and again on 15 May 2013, to head the Registry of the
ICTY, a neutral organ of the Tribunal which provides legal, diplomatic and administrative support to Judges, Prosecution and Defence. He was appointed for a third term by Secretary-General
António Guterres on 15 May 2017 to support the completion of the Tribunal's work until its closure on 31 December 2017. The United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon also appointed Hocking on 18 January 2012 as the first Registrar of the
Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals and entrusted him with its effective start-up. Hocking joined the ICTY in 1997 as the legal officer coordinator on the ICTY's first multi-accused proceedings, the
Celebici case. He subsequently served as Senior Legal Officer for the common Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He was the ICTY Deputy Registrar from 2004 to 2009. Prior to his engagement with the United Nations, he held legal and policy adviser positions internationally and domestically, including with the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, the Australian Government's national multicultural television and radio broadcaster, the
Special Broadcasting Service, the
British Film Institute in London and the
Australian Film Commission. In his early career, Hocking served as the legal associate to Justice
Michael Kirby, former Judge of the
High Court of Australia, and to
London-based human rights lawyer
Geoffrey Robertson Q.C. Hocking has been called to the bar at
Lincoln's Inn, London, and has been admitted as a barrister/solicitor with the
Supreme Court of Victoria and
Supreme Court of New South Wales in Australia. He holds a Master of Law with merit from the University of London (
London School of Economics and Political Science), a Bachelor of Law from the
University of Sydney, and a Bachelor of Science from
Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He studied at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government. ==References==