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Fatou Bensouda

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Fatou Bensouda is the The Gambia High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Previously, she was Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (2012 -2021). Mrs. Bensoud’as international career as a non-government civil servant began at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she worked as a Legal Adviser and Trial Attorney before rising to the position of Senior Legal Advisor and Head of the Legal Advisory Unit (2002 to 2004), after which she joined the ICC as the Court’s first Deputy Prosecutor. Between 1987 and 2000, Mrs. Bensouda was successively Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Solicitor General and Legal Secretary of the Republic of The Gambia, and Attorney General and Minister of Justice of The Republic of The Gambia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda