Mohamed Othman

Honorable ​​Mohamed Chande Othman is a Muslim legal scholar from Tanzania who is highly respected internationally for his deep understanding of political, legal and other dimensions of East Africa and the continent more broadly.​

He served as the Chief Justice of Tanzania from December 2010 to January 2017 after serving as both a High Court and Appeal Court Judge.

Justice Othman's previous experience includes that of Prosecutor General of East Timor, Chief of Prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Senior Legal and Justice Reform Advisor for UNDP Cambodia, Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Inquiry on the Relocation of Pastoralists and their Livestock from Usanga Valley in Ihefu, and Public Prosecutor for the Bank of Tanzania. In addition, he has also worked with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.