Nationality: France (Western European and other States)
Term: 11 March 2003 - 12 August 2007
Elected from: List B on 7 February 2003
Biography
Judge Jorda was elected for a six-year term from the Western European and Others Group of States (WEOG).
He took up office at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in 1994, where he became President in 1999, until his election as a judge of the ICC. During his term as President, Judge Jorda initiated and supervised the implementation of significant reforms towards a more efficient judicial process. Judge Jorda has comprehensive legal experience in many different areas covering a wide range of legal practice.
Judge Jorda has been Attorney-General of the Appeals Courts of Paris and Bordeaux and Director of Judicial Services for the French Ministry of Justice. He has also been on judicial co-operation missions in Chile, Guatemala, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Algeria and Canada.
He has contributed to various specialist legal publications on human rights and international humanitarian law and has written extensively on the role of victims and on the development of international criminal law.
