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Biography
Thomas A. Mensah is a Ghanaian lawyer, judge, diplomat, lecturer and a Deputy Chairman of the International Foundation of the Law of the Sea.
Mensah was the President of a five-member tribunal in that Permanent Court of Arbitration that ruled on the case filed by the Philippines against China which concerns the disputed territories in the South China Sea particularly the validity of the nine-dash line claim of China.
Early life
Thomas Mensah was born in Kumasi, Ghana, on 12 May 1932.
Education
He holds with a BA from the University of Ghana (1956), an LL.B from the University of London (1959), an LL.M. (1962) and a J.S.D.(1964) from Yale University Law School.
Career
He was a lecturer and dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Ghana from 1966-1968 and also worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency, The International Maritime Organization, The UN Environment Programme (World Maritime University, Malmö, Sweden Leiden University, Leiden, The Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, USA and served as Ghana’s High Commissioner to the South Africa.,