Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu is the Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy and a Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Ghana, Legon.
With a distinguished career spanning over three decades and counting, Professor Mensa-Bonsu has served in a number of high-level international capacities. A high point in these positions was her appointment as the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Rule of Law in Liberia from 2007 – 2011.
Prior to that, she had been the ECOWAS nominee on the International Technical Advisory Committee for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2006; Ghana’s Representative on the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Commission of Eminent Jurists on the Lockerbie Case from 2001 to 2002, a member of the African Union Commission’s Committee of Eminent Jurists on the Hissene Habre case in April 2006 and the vice chairperson of the ECOWAS Working Group on the Harmonisation of Business laws on non- OHADA States from 2005 – 2007.
For Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, « The ICC is the product of international politics and it has to work within an atmosphere of international politics… One has to be conscious of this and proceeds accordingly ».
