Professor Akua Kuenyehia is a Ghanaian Lawyer who served as a judge of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2015. Prof. Kuenyehia was educated at the University of Ghana, Legon, and Oxford University.

She spent most of her professional career teaching at the Faculty of Law in the University of Ghana, ending her career as Dean of the Faculty. While at the university, she taught criminal law, gender and the law, international human rights law, and public international law. She was also a Visiting Professor at other institutions including Leiden University in the Netherlands and Temple University in the United States of America. While at the Faculty of Law, she coordinated a Sub Regional Research Network, Women and Law in West Africa covering Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia.

Kuenyehia’s activism saw her serving as one of the first board members of the Africa Regional Network, Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF). In Ghana, she was an active member of FIDA Ghana, serving as president from 1988-1992. She has been a pioneer advocating for equal opportunity, justice, and development for women in Ghana and around the world. She has published widely on women and law. She is co-author of a textbook on Women and Law in Sub-Saharan Africa, published in August 2003 which is currently the only comprehensive textbook on the subject. She served on the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) from 2002 till she was elected to be a judge in the International Criminal Court in 2003.