Hans-Peter KAUL

Judge of the International Criminal Court, President of the Pre-Trial Division

Education and Professional Training:
1983 International Peace Academy, Vienna
1975 Second State Examination in Law, Heidelberg
1973 - 1975 Max Planck Institute for Comparative International Law and Public International Law, Heidelberg, Assistant to Prof. Dr. Hermann Mosler
1974 Academy of International Law, The Hague
1972 - 1973 Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), Paris
1972 Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge (UK), summer course
1971 First State Examination in Law, Heidelberg
1967 - 1971 Legal Studies in Heidelberg and Lausanne
1963 - 1967 Military Service in the German Army, last rank: Captain

Professional Background:
February 2003 Elected as a Judge to the International Criminal Court
2003 Ambassador, Commissioner of the Federal Foreign Office for Issues relating to Visas and Migration to Germany
2002 - 2003 Ambassador, Commissioner of the Federal Foreign Office for the International Criminal Court
1996 - 2002 Director of the Office for Public International Law, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn/Berlin
1993 - 1996 First Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Germany to the United Nations, New York, (during Germany's non-permanent membership in the Security Council 1995/1996)
1990 - 1993 Deputy Director, Office for Near Eastern Affairs, Federal Foreign Office, Bonn
1986 - 1990 Political Counsellor, German Embassy to the United States, Washington
1984 - 1986 Press Counsellor and Spokesman, German Embassy to Israel, Tel Aviv
1980 - 1984 Office for UN Affairs (SC, GA), Federal Foreign Office, Bonn
1977 - 1980 Consul and Press Attaché, German Embassy to Norway, Oslo
1977 United Nations Conference on Succession of States with Respect to Treaties, Vienna, Assistant to Dr. C.-A. Fleischhauer