Africa Development Conference 2025
Africa by 2040: The Future of Africa's Youth
April 11 to April 12, 2025
Amb. Dr. Namira Negm
Namira Negm is the first Director of the African Migration Observatory and Honorary President of the African Society for International Law. She is a Visiting Professor at the Geneva Summer School in International Law and International Humanitarian Law (Geneva University), Member of the Editorial Board of the International Organizations Law Review and Member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law (Malta). She is a seasoned diplomat, professor and international advocate.
Negm was the first female Legal Counsel of the African Union, the first and only African/Arab/Muslim/Egyptian female that addressed both the ICJ and the ICC (Advisory Opinions of Chagos, the illegality of the occupation of the Palestinian Territories and the Jordan’s Appeal in AlBashir case). She has also negotiated numerous international and African multilateral legal documents and Conventions.
She is a Justitia Award Laureate for 2023 (International Leaders/ Lifetime Award). She was also chosen among 100 Egyptian Female Heroes by WoEgypt’s Heroes 2020.
Negm is the former Ambassador of Egypt to Rwanda, Former Legal Advisor of the Egyptian Mission to the UN in NY, and former Visiting Professor at the American University of Cairo and University of `Rwanda.
She carries a PhD in Public International Law from University of London (2006) and LLM in Public International Law from King’s College London (1996). She has many academic and non-academic publications.
Her publications include a book entitled ‘The Transfer of Nuclear Technology under International Law: Case Study of Iraq, Iran and Israel’, and another entitled ‘An Introduction to the African Union Environmental Treaties’ and Articles on ‘The Role of Egypt in the Negotiations of the Crime of Aggression’, ‘The African Union Humanitarian Law Policy: An Analysis of Africa’s Regional Institutions and Practice’, ‘The African Union Sanctions Regime in case of Unconstitutional Change of Government’, and ‘The Ethio-Eritrea Commission.’
