Member, Expert Advisory Group

Mahnoush Arsanjani

Mahnoush H. Arsanjani is a leading international lawyer. She served in the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs for over 30 years in various positions. She was Director of the Codification Division and Secretary to the United Nations International Law Commission, and also Secretary of the Committee of the Whole of the Rome Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court. She served as a member of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Enquiry, established in June 2011 by the King of Bahrain to investigate and report on events in Bahrain in 2011. She was a member of the Expert Group established by the 2008 Ad Hoc Energy Ministers Meetings Held in Jeddah and London, and also served as a special consultant to the International Energy Forum which drafted the Charter of the International Energy Forum. She was Vice President of the American Society of International Law and is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. She is a member of the Institut de Droit International. She has published widely and lectured at leading universities and institutions on international law, international tribunals and international institutions. She is currently a Vice-President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal.