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Biography

Mr. O-Gon Kwon is currently serving as the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court from December 2017 for a term of three years. He is also serving as the President of the Korean Society of Law, which is the association of all jurists, i.e., judges, prosecutors, attorneys and law professors in Korea. Before joining Kim & Chang in May 2016, Kwon worked as one of the permanent judges of the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from November 2001 until March 2016. Prior to his international career, Kwon served in the judiciary of the Republic of Korea for 22 years as a judge in various courts.