10 Facts About Peter Tomka

Peter Tomka was born on 1 June 1956 and is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice.

Peter Tomka earned LLM and PhD degrees from Charles University in Prague in 1979 and 1985 respectively.

In 1986, Peter Tomka joined Czechoslovakia's Foreign Ministry as an assistant legal adviser, and in 1990 was promoted to head of the Ministry's Public International Law Division.

Peter Tomka held a seat on the International Law Commission between 1999 and 2002.

Peter Tomka is member of the Slovak Society of International Law and has served as the organization's honorary president since 2003.

Peter Tomka is a member of the American Society of International Law and the European Society of International Law.

Peter Tomka was elected to the ICJ by the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council; his first term began on February 6,2003.

In 2009, Tomka was on the ad hoc Committee in the MCI Power Group v Republic of Ecuador Annulment Decision.

In 2011 Peter Tomka was re-elected to a second nine-year term on the ICJ by the UN General Assembly and the Security Council;.

In February 2012 Peter Tomka was elected president of the court for a three-year term from 6 February 2012 until 2015.