John Hocking
John Hocking | |
|---|---|
Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals | |
| In office January 2012 – 31 December 2016 | |
| Succeeded by | Olufemi Elias |
| Personal details | |
| Born | John Frederick Hocking 6 August 1957 Melbourne, Australia |
John Hocking (born 6 August 1957) of Australia is the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar of the
Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (UNMICT)[2]
from January 2012 until December 2016.
Biography
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.[3] 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.[4]
The United Nations Secretary-General
Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals and entrusted him with its effective start-up.[5]
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.[6] He was the ICTY Deputy Registrar from 2004-09.[7]
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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed
]
Hocking has been called to the bar at
Harvard Kennedy School of Government.[citation needed
]
References
- ^ ICTY website; accessed 29 April 2015
- ^ Profile, UNMICT website; accessed 29 April 2015
- ^ ICTY Registry
- ^ ICTY Press release
- ^ Profile, un.org; accessed 29 April 2015.
- ^ Hocking named registrat of UNMICT, unictr.org; accessed 29 April 2015.
- ^ Hocking as ICTY Deputy Registrar (2004-09), un.org; accessed 29 April 2015.
- ^ University of Sydney website; accessed 29 April 2015.