{{short description|19th President of the International Court of Justice (2000–2003)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Gilbert Guillaume | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | office = President of the International Court of Justice | term_start = 7 February 2000 | term_end = 6 February 2003 | predecessor = Stephen Schwebel | successor = Shi Jiuyong | office1 = Judge of the International Court of Justice | term_start1 = 17 September 1987 | term_end1 = 11 February 2005 | nominator = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> | appointer = <!--Can be repeated up to 16 times by changing the number--> | birth_name = Gilbert Pierre Guillaume | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|12|4|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bois-Colombes, France | alma_mater = University of Paris<br>Sciences Po<br>École nationale d'administration | children = Marc Guillaume }}
'''Gilbert Pierre Guillaume''' (born 4 December 1930; {{IPA|fr|ʒilbɛʁ ɡijom}}) is a French jurist and judge who served as the 19th President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague from 2000 to 2003. He was an ICJ Judge between 1987 and 2005. Guillaume was previously appointed a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gilbert Guilaume |url=http://www.iaiparis.com/profile/gilbert.guillaume |publisher=IAI Paris |accessdate=14 April 2020 |archive-date=21 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021065626/http://iaiparis.com/profile/gilbert.guillaume |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=JUDGE GILBERT GUILLAUME (FRANCE) ELECTED PRESIDENT OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE |url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2000/20000208.icj595.doc.html |accessdate=14 April 2020 |publisher=United Nations |date=18 February 2000}}</ref>
A native of Bois-Colombes, Seine, Guillaume studied at Sciences Po and graduated from the École nationale d'administration in 1957. He was appointed a master of requests at the Conseil d'État before joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director of Juridicial Affairs in 1979.<ref>[https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000000345313 "Décret du 2 novembre 1992 maintenant un conseiller d'Etat dans la position de détachement de longue durée"], legifrance.gouv.fr (in French), 6 November 1992.</ref> In 2007 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, which he presided over in 2016, when he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. Guillaume is also a former member of the academic staff of Sciences Po, Paris.
Gilbert Guillaume is the father of Marc Guillaume (born 1964), who was appointed Prefect of Paris in 2020.
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