Judge Mindua is the Second Vice-President of the ICC. He studied law and political science in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), in Nancy and Strasbourg (France), and in Geneva (Switzerland). After receiving his doctorate in International Law from the University of Geneva in 1995, he served first as a Legal Officer and Chief of the Judicial Proceedings Support Unit at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1996 to 2001, and later as a Trial Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). From 2001 to 2006, Judge Mindua was an Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Swiss Confederation and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva. During his tenure in Geneva, Dr. Mindua held a number of multilateral posts, including Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Chairman of the Group of 77 and China, and Coordinator of the Group of 21 at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. Judge Mindua is also a Professor at the Universities of Kinshasa and Geneva. He teaches Public International Law and International Criminal Law.