Gudmundur Eiriksson was a member of the UN International Law Commission from 1987 to 1996 and a Judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1996 to 2002. He is currently a Judge ad hoc in the M/V “Norstar” case before the Tribunal. He is a member of the Panel of Conciliators and Panel of Arbitrators at the ICSID, the Panels of Conciliation and Arbitration under the UNCLOS, the International Council of Environmental Law and the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law. From 1974 to 1976, he also served as a Law of the Sea Officer in the United Nations. From 1977 to 2014, he served in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Iceland, as Assistant Legal Adviser, Legal Adviser and Ambassador of Iceland in Ottawa, Pretoria and New Delhi. Gudmundur Eiriksson is also Professor and Executive Director at the Centre for International Legal Studies, Jindal Global Law School. He is a Fellow of King’s College London and Professor Emeritus at the University for Peace.