Mohamed Chande Othman Currently is the chair of the UN Independent International Fact Finding Mission for the Sudan. He served as Chief Justice of Tanzania (December 2010 to 17 January 2017). Since, 2017, he has served as Eminent Person appointed by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and charged with the examination of new information relating to the tragic death on 17-18th September, 1961 of the 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjöld and other members of his party. In 2015, he was appointed by UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki-moon as Chairperson of the Independent Panel of Experts on the Dag Hammarskjöld Investigations.
In 2019-2020, was a member of the Independent Expert Review of the International Criminal Court and the Rome Statute System having been appointed by the Assembly of State Parties of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Since, December, 2022 he is serving as Chairperson of the United Nations Human Right’s Council’s Independent Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.
Justice Othman’s previous experience includes that of Prosecutor General of East Timor (Timor Leste) (2000-2001), Chief of Prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (1998-2000), and Senior Legal and Justice Sector Adviser (UNDP-Cambodia). He has also served as a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s High-Level Commission of Inquiry into the Situation in Lebanon following the Israel-Lebanon Armed Conflict in 2006 and as the UN Human Rights Council’s Independent Expert on the human rights situation in the Sudan (2009-2010).
