Sabine Nolke

Retired diplomat and practitioner of international law (Global Affairs Canada, 1992-2021);
Currently a Visiting Fellow at Western University, Western Academy for Advanced Research on the topic "International Law and Peace" (2025).

Ambassador of Canada to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the International Judicial Institutions in The Hague (2015-2019);

Director General for Non-proliferation and Security Threat Reduction, Global Affairs Canada (2011-2015);

Deputy Director and Director, United Nations, Human Rights and Economic Law Division, GAC (2003-2011).

In the course of her career Ms Nolke acted as co-counsel for Canada before the International Court of Justice (case on Legality of the Use of Force, 1999-2004); as sous-Sherpa to the Prime Minister on the Nuclear Security Summit Process; as co-Chair of the Sahel Working Group of the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum; as co-Chair of the Working Group on the Future of the OPCW; and as Chair of the Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor of the ICC.

LL.D. (h.c.), University of Western Ontario (2016);
LL.M. Public International Law, LSE (1996);
Hague Academy of International Law (1993);
LL.B., University of Western Ontario (1985);
MA English Literature, University of Western Ontario (1980);
BA (Hons, English and German Literature), University of Western Ontario (1978)