Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua

Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua (born 31 December 1956 in Mushie, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese lawyer who served first as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and then as a judge of the International Criminal Court.

Education Mindua studied law and political science in Kinshasa, Nancy-Université, Strasbourg and Geneva. He received his doctorate in international law from the University of Geneva in 1995. Also in 2018, he presided over hearings of Alfred Yekatom, a former militia leader accused of alleged atrocities against Muslims in the Central African Republic. In 2020, he was part of the three-member panel who judged that former Congolese vice president and militia leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, who had been acquitted of war crimes by the court in 2018, was not entitled to any damages or compensation for his 10-year stint in the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU).

Other activities Mindua is also a professor at the Universities of Kinshasa and Geneva. He teaches public international law and international criminal law.

He is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.