Harold Hongju Koh

Harold Hongju Koh is an American diplomat, lawyer, legal scholar, politician, and writer who served as the legal adviser of the Department of State in the Obama administration. He was nominated to this position by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2009, and confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 2009. He left the State Department in January 2013, returning to Yale University as a Sterling Professor of international law. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007.

8 December 1954

Born on the same birth date (8 December 1954): Frits Pirard

Born on the same birth day (8 December): Bob Arum • Brettina • Chava Alberstein • Concha Piquer • December 8 • Ernest Lehman • Frits Pirard • Indrek Allmann • John Qualen • Kim Basinger • Kristin Lauter • Larry Martin • McDonald Bailey • Michel Ferté • Peter Andreas Hansen • Richard Fleischer • Scott McTominay • Serena Ryder • Tim Foli • Vince MacLean

Born in the same month (December 1954): Alan Dedicoat • Alan Kulwicki • Annie Lennox • Brian Teacher • Chris Evert • Denzel Washington • Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson • Helen Jones • Hideshi Matsuda • John Booth (motor racing) • José María Figueres • Judith Hackitt • Mary Fallin • Nicola De Maria • Ray Liotta • Sergejus Jovaiša • Steve MacLean (astronaut) • Teo Chee Hean • Yves Debay