# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-mensah
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:43:36.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-mensah"
name: "Thomas Mensah"
slug: "thomas-mensah"
description: "Thomas A. Mensah was a Ghanaian judge, law professor and diplomat who served as judge and president of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) from 1996 to 1999 and continued as a judge from 1999 to 2005. He was the first president of the tribunal. Before his appointment to the tribunal, Mensah was Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa and a former Assistant Secretary-General at the International Maritime Organization (IMO)."
tagline: "Ghanaian lawyer (1932-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Aboagye_Mensah_-_Flickr_image_8671842802.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-05-12"
deathDate: "2020-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.54
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.676746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aboagye_Mensah"
    title: "Thomas Aboagye Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "طوماس منساه (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%87"
    title: "توماس منساه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah"
    title: "Thomas Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah_(lawyer)"
    title: "Thomas Mensah (lawyer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mensah"
    title: "Thomas Mensah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2421923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump