Bio
Professor Dire Tladi is a Professor of International Law and Future Africa's Research Chair of Global Equity in Africa at the University of Pretoria. He also holds the NRF SARChI Chair of International Constitutional Law. He has over 100 academic publications and is a former member and Chair of the UN International Law Commission and was its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International, and a two-time Fulbright grant holder.
He was previously a lawyer for the South African Foreign Ministry and Legal Counsel for its Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He has appeared as counsel before the ICC Pre-Trial and Appeal Chambers. He subsequently served as an adviser to Foreign Minister from 2014 to 2018.