The Honorable Louise Arbour

The Honorable Louise Arbour has been President of the International Crisis Group since July 2009. She served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2004-2008. She was appointed by the Security Council of the United Nations as Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. She was previously an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Research Officer for the Law Reform Commission of Canada, and Vice-President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. She served as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Ontario and on the Supreme Court of Canada. The Honorable Ms. Arbour graduated from College Regina Assumpta in 1967 and completed an LL.L. with distinction at the Universit� de Montr�al in 1970. She clerked for Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1971-1972, while completing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law (Civil Section) of the University of Ottawa. She was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1971 and to the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1977. She was made a Companion to the Order of Canada in 2007 and a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2009.

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