Judge O-Gon Kwon Vice-President of the ICTY since 17 November 2008 Born: 12 September 1953, Cheong-ju, Korea

Judge O-Gon Kwon was sworn in as a Judge of the Tribunal on 17 November 2001, and began his mandate as Vice-President of the ICTY on 17 November 2008, elected by his peers.

A judge at the Seoul District Court in 1979 and 1980, he became Assistant Legal Advisor to the President of the Republic of Korea, a position he held until 1984. Between 1986 and 1990, he was a judge at the Seoul Criminal District Court and Judge at the Daegu High Court. From 1990 to 1992, Judge Kwon was Planning Director at the Ministry of Court Administration. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Judge at the Supreme Court of Korea. Between 1993 and 1999, he served as a Presiding Judge, successively in the Changwon, Suwon, and Seoul District Courts. In the meantime, he also served as Director of Research at the Constitutional Court of Korea from 1997 to 1999. He was a Presiding Judge at the Daegu High Court when elected as a Judge of the ICTY by the UN General Assembly.

At the ICTY, Judge Kwon served on the bench which heard the trial of Slobodan Milošević, and has also been involved in several pre-trial proceedings, contempt trials and sentencing judgments. Currently a member of Trial Chamber II, Judge Kwon sits on the bench hearing the case of Prosecutor v. Popović et al. He is also a member of the Referral Bench, which determines whether certain cases pending before the Tribunal are suitable to be referred for trial in national courts. In addition, he is a member of the Tribunal’s Rules Committee, which is charged with proposing additions and modifications to the Rules of Procedure and Evidence. In addition to his work at the ICTY, Judge Kwon has served as a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford) since 2007.

Judge Kwon holds an LL.B. (1976) from Seoul National University Law School and an LL.M. (1983) from the Graduate School of Seoul National University. He took his Bar Apprenticeship in the Judicial Research and Training Institute at the Supreme Court of Korea (1979). Judge Kwon also holds an LL.M. (1985) from Harvard Law School, U.S.A. He received a “Moran” National Order of Merit from the President of the Republic of Korean in September 2008.