Carla Del Ponte

Carla Del Ponte
Del Ponte in July 2006
Born	(1947-02-09) February 9, 1947 (age 70) Bignasco, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Occupation	former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals

Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947) is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour.

In 2003, the U.N. Security Council removed Del Ponte as the Prosecutor for the ICTR, and replaced her there with Hassan Bubacar Jallow in an effort to expedite proceedings in that Tribunal. She remained the Prosecutor for the ICTY until 1 January 2008, when she was succeeded by Serge Brammertz. Del Ponte was formerly married, and has one son.

On behalf of the European Parliament she conducted an investigation on allegations of organ trafficking by the Kosovo Liberation Army. According to these allegations, organs were forcibly taken from Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo and Albania.

Del Ponte served as Swiss ambassador to Argentina from 2008 to February 2011.

Del Ponte was born in Bignasco, Switzerland, in 1947. Her first language is Italian and she speaks fluent German, French and English. Del Ponte studied law in Bern and Geneva, as well as in the United Kingdom. She obtained her LL.M. in 1972.