Ambassador Dr. Namira Negm will share with the audience her expertise on the evolution of international law, the underlying politics of such transformations and also her important contribution to the ICJ’s ruling on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

About Namira Negm

Ambassador Dr. Namira Negm served as a member of the Legal Team of Palestine in the Advisory Opinion before the ICJ on the Israeli Occupation. Ambassador Negm is the Director of the African Migration Observatory in Rabat. In 2017, she became the first woman to assume responsibility of the Office of the Legal Counsel of the African Union.  Ambassador Negm was  former Egyptian Ambassador to Rwanda 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, she was the Legal Advisor to the Egyptian mission to the UN in New York.

Ambassador Negm holds an LLM and Ph.D. in Public International Law from the Kings’ College London and University of London.  She gave numerous lectures in universities in the United States, France, Switzerland, Ecuador among others. She is also a guest Professor at the University of Geneva (Summer School in International Law and International Humanitarian Law).  Her academic publications include a book on “Transfer of Nuclear Technology under International law, Case Study of Iraq, Iran and Israel” (2009) and a book on “An Introduction to African Union Environmental Treaties” (2021).