IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018. A distinguished diplomat and international statesman, in 2019 he was elected to The Elders, an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela.

Prince Zeid has represented Jordan on the world stage as its ambassador to the UN in New York on two occasions and as its ambassador to the United States. In January 2014, he served as president of the UN Security Council.

Earlier, in 2002, he became the first president of the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC), serving until 2005. He also served, from 1994 to 1996, as a UN civilian peacekeeper with UNPROFOR – the UN Protection Force.

Prince Zeid received his B.A from John Hopkins University. He was then a research student at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained a PhD. In 2016, he was made an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

He is currently President of the International Peace Institute and Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen is Denmark’s Minister for Foreign Affairs. He has served as a member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, for more than three decades.

He was first elected to Parliament in 1994 for the Liberal Party (Venstre), serving the party until the end of 2020. Following a period as an independent member, he joined The Moderates in 2022 and continues to represent the party in the Folketing.

Lars Løkke Rasmussen has twice served as Prime Minister of Denmark, first from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. His previous ministerial appointments include Minister for the Interior and Health from 2001 to 2007 and Minister for Finance from 2007 to 2009. He was Chairman of the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2019, having previously served as its Vice-Chairman.

He became Minister for Foreign Affairs in December 2022 and was reappointed to the role in June 2026.

A graduate of the University of Copenhagen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen received his Master of Laws degree in 1992. He is also the author of several books, including Ud af det blå (Out of the Blue), published in 2021, Om de fleste og det meste (On (Nearly) Everyone and Everything), published in 2020, and Hvis jeg bli’r gammel (If I Get Old), published in 1997.

Dr. Anton Korynevych is a Ukrainian lawyer specializing in public international law, international humanitarian and international criminal law.

He serves as Legal Adviser and Director for International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

Dr. Korynevych is the Agent of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice in the Allegations of Genocide and was the Agent of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice in the Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination cases (Ukraine v. Russian Federation). Dr. Korynevych is also the Agent of Ukraine before the International Court of Justice in a dispute under the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Canada, the Kingdom of Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. Islamic Republic of Iran) and is the Agent of Ukraine before the Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitral Tribunal on a dispute concerning coastal state rights in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait (Ukraine v. Russian Federation; Permanent Court of Arbitration acts as Registry in this arbitration). Dr. Korynevych is also the Agent of Ukraine before the Annex VII to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Arbitral Tribunal on a dispute Concerning the Detention of Ukrainian Naval Vessels and Servicemen (Ukraine v. the Russian Federation; Permanent Court of Arbitration acts as Registry in this arbitration).

Dr. Korynevych holds a title of Honored lawyer of Ukraine. He has a diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 2nd class. Dr. Korynevych has been awarded with the Order of the Merit, 3rd Degree.

Dr. Korynevych is the Head of the Task Force Working Group on freeze, seize and confiscation of Russian assets within the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.

Dr. Korynevych served as Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (25 June 2019 – 25 April 2022).

He got his Ph.D. in international law in 2011 in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dr. Korynevych holds a position of Associate Professor of the International Law Department of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Dr. Korynevych is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ukrainian Association of International Law. He used to work as Research Coordinator of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (14 April 2017 – 22 April 2019). He also used to work as Deputy Director of the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (22 April 2019 – 25 June 2019).

• Awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation or the Rector of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2022).
• Awarded with the highest award of the Ukrainian Bar Association "For honor and professional dignity" (2023).
• Awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2024).
• Awarded with the Certificate of Appreciation of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2026).
• Awarded with the Honorary Certificate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (2026).
• Recipient of the Joshua Heintz Award for Humanitarian Achievement by Robert H. Jackson Center (2026).

Dr. Korynevych has been working on legal consequences of Russian aggression against Ukraine since February 2014. Dr. Korynevych worked a lot with Ukrainian prosecutorial authorities providing trainings and advice to them. He also provided trainings on international humanitarian and international criminal law to Ukrainian human rights non-governmental organizations, worked a lot with international partners on these issues, participated in drafting of relevant national legislation.

Dr. Korynevych was the head of the working group on reintegration of temporarily occupied territories within the Commission on Legal Reform of Ukraine.

He is also the member of the working group on the development and implementation of international legal instruments of reimbursement of damage caused to Ukraine by armed aggression of the Russian Federation within Office of the President of Ukraine, member of the working group on the establishment of the Special International Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine within the Office of the President of Ukraine and member of the International Advisory Board of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Dr. Korynevych is coordinating the issue of the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He was also the chair of the Core Group on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine.

Thomas has built a career of over two decades of diplomatic service and a decade within the intelligence agencies. He now serves as the Ambassador of Denmark to Ukraine. Previously, Thomas served as Cyber Security advisor to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director-General of Asia, Oceania, Latin America and the Caribbean in the Foreign Service.

Thomas has also been a partner and head of the cyber risk practice at Macro Advisory Partners, a global geopolitical advisory firm advising some of the world’s largest corporates on geopolitical challenges and opportunities. In 2021, he stepped down as Head of the Danish Government’s Centre for Cyber Security (at the Danish Defence Intelligence Service) which he led since its foundation in 2012 developing a reputation as one of Europe’s most senior leading cyber security professionals. Prior to this, Thomas took on a range of senior roles including as Chief Information Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010-2012), Ambassador and Special Envoy of the Danish Government to Benghazi, Libya (2011), Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (2007-2010), Head of the Department for International Trade and Political Advisory (2005-2007) and as Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Minister of Denmark (1996-2000). Furthermore, he has been posted to Paris (1992-1994) and Berlin (2000-2005, Deputy Chief of Mission).

During his long tenure in government and intelligence Thomas gained a wealth of experience, most recently as responsible for building and managing national security in the cyber domain and within the critical telecommunication infrastructure sector. He has extensive experience in government affairs, advising international corporates on market risks and opportunities, crisis management, hostile environments, international trade, European affairs and assisting Danish companies on foreign markets. He was responsible in 2006 for the organization, coordination, and execution of the successful evacuation out of Lebanon for 6,000 Danish citizens during the summer war that year. From 2007 to 2010 he was the first Danish resident ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In early spring 2011 and for six months during the civil war, he was working out of Benghazi, Libya as the special envoy of the Danish Government to the rebellion leadership TNC.

Thomas has been Chairman of the public-private National Cyber Security Council, a member of the Management Board of the European Cyber Security Agency (ENISA) and on Advisory Boards at the Danish Technical University (DTU) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) Executive, where he continues to teach Boards of Directors and Executives about how to manage cyber risk. He is an honorary fellow at the University of Southern Denmark and was a non-executive director at the cyber security incident response and technical advisory company Improsec A/S.

Thomas holds a Master of Economics (Cand.Polit) from the University of Copenhagen, a CEP from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA – promotion Saint-Exupéry).

Andriy Kostin was born on April 17, 1973, in Odesa.

In 1995 graduated from Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University with a degree in Law. A.Kostin worked as a lawyer and attorney in several law firms and associations.

From 2016 to 2019 served as Deputy Head of the Bar Council of the Odesa Region. In 2019 elected as a Member of Parliament to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation.

He served as Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy and as Chair of the Subcommittee on the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Committee on Legal Policy.

In 2000 he joined the International Bar Association, being an active member of the Maritime and Transp ort Law Committee and the Bar Issues Commission of the IBA.

From 2020 to 2022 Chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Legal Policy. From 2022 to 2024 served as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

By Presidential Decrees No. 212/2025 and No. 213/2025 dated April 7, 2025, appointed as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Fluent in Ukrainian and English.