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

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Born in the same month (December 1954): Alan Dedicoat • Chris Evert • Denzel Washington • Eudine Barriteau • Gayle King • Grace Andreacchi • Jack Hues • Jean-Claude Juncker • Jeff Allam • Mary Fallin • Michael Badalucco • Oliver Heald • Ozzie Smith • Santiago Creel • Teo Chee Hean