Chaloka Beyani is a Zambian lawyer and legal scholar, who is an associate professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

[4] Zambia had previously put Beyani forth for the 2017 International Court of Justice judges election, but withdrew his name prior to the candidate selection process.

[6] Beyani is a recognized international and United Nations expert on internally displaced persons (IDPs),[7] population transfers, the rights-based approach to development, climate change,[8] sexual and reproductive health, mercenaries and private military companies,[9] making treaties and making constitutions.

[21] Beyani has acted as a legal advisor, consultant and expert to a number of UN entities, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),[22] the World Health Organization, the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and to the European Union (EU), the Commonwealth Secretariat and the African Union (AU).

[10][1] Beyani was among a team of experts appointed by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) to formulate the 'responsibility to protect'.

[26] As Legal Adviser to the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, Beyani drafted and negotiated the 2006 Great Lakes Pact on Peace, Stability and Development,[27][12][26][1] with 11 peace treaties under it,[28] including the first legally binding treaty on protection for and assistance to IDPs.

[35] He was Chairperson of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) from 2013-2014.

[36] In 2018, the South Sudan government requested Beyani to provide guidance on key tasks related to the Kampala Convention: assisting in the ratification process, drafting necessary national legislation for implementation, creating a framework for the protection and assistance of IDPs and establishing provisions for sustainable solutions.

[37] In June 2019, South Sudan adopted this draft legislation as the Protection and Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons Act 2019.

[11] Beyani was appointed in 2019 as a member of the Expert Advisory Group[38] for the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement.

[10][11] In 2020 Beyani was appointed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as a member of the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya, to document alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by all parties in Libya since the start of 2016.

[41] In 2024, the International Criminal Court announced six arrest warrants based on the work Beyani and the investigative team had done.