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): Aleksandra Olsza • Anita Weyermann • Georges Méliès • John Oster • Josh Donaldson • Khaw Boon Wan • Queen Jeonghui • Richard Fleischer • Sinéad O'Connor • Thatcher Demko

Born in the same month (December 1954): Alan Dedicoat • Alan Kulwicki • Frits Pirard • Gayle King • Hermann Tilke • Jack Hues • Jermaine Jackson • Kent Benson • Mandie Fletcher • Oliver Heald • Raivo Järvi • Santiago Creel • Teo Chee Hean