Luis Moreno Ocampo
| Luis Moreno Ocampo | |
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| Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court | |
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In office 16 June 2003 – 15 June 2012 |
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| President |
Philippe Kirsch Song Sang-Hyun |
| Deputy | Fatou Bensouda |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Fatou Bensouda |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 June 1952 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
Luis Gabriel Moreno Ocampo (born 4 June 1952) is an Argentine lawyer and the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). He previously worked as a prosecutor in Argentina, where he gained fame by representing the public face of the prosecution in the military officials in the Trial of the Juntas.
Moreno Ocampo was an Associate Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Buenos Aires and a visiting professor at Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the United Nations. He is a former member of the advisory board of Transparency International and a former president of its Latin America and Caribbean office. He was a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University for the fall semester of 2013.
In 2011, The Atlantic included him among its "Brave Thinkers", a guide to the people risking their reputations, fortunes and lives in pursuit of big ideas. In that same year, Foreign Policy magazine designated him one of its "100 Top Global Thinkers", the magazine’s portrait of the world marketplace of ideas.
Born in Buenos Aires, Moreno Ocampo graduated from the University of Buenos Aires Law School in 1978, and from 1980 to 1984 worked as a law clerk in the office of the Solicitor General.
From 1984 to 1992, Moreno Ocampo worked as a prosecutor in Argentina. He first came to public attention in 1985, as Assistant Prosecutor in the "Trial of the Juntas" with Chief Prosecutor Julio César Strassera. This trial was the first since the Nuremberg Trials in which senior military commanders were prosecuted for mass killings. Nine senior commanders, including three former heads of state, were prosecuted and five were convicted. In 1986-7, he was involved in the cases against the Junta’s subordinate commanders and officers. One of those trials, against two Chiefs of the Buenos Aires Police Force and 4 police officers involved in murders, kidnapping and tortures, ended in 1986. In 1987 he assisted the U.S. Attorney's Office in the extradition process of General Guillermo Suarez Mason from California. From 1988 to 1992 he was the top federal criminal prosecutor of the Buenos Aires Federal Circuit, where he led the prosecution of 2 military rebellion cases, a military malpractice case against the top Army commanders in the Malvinas-Falkland war and dozens of public corruption cases against Federal Judges, National Ministers and Heads of public companies.
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