Forbes named Fatou Bensouda Among 100 Influence Women

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Forbes a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership and lifestyle has recently named Fatou Bensouda among the 100 most influential African women. 



                    Early Life And Education 



Born on 31 January 1961 in Banjul (then Bathurst), Gambia, into a polygamous Muslim family,


she is the daughter of Omar Gaye Nyang, who was a government driver and the country's most prominent wrestling promoter. 


Fatou Bensouda is the niece of the Gambian historian and author Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof. Her father is related to the Joof family through his maternal grandmother Ndombuur Joof (Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof's great-aunt). 


She attended primary and secondary school in the Gambia before leaving in 1982 for Nigeria, where she graduated from the University of Ife with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) degree in 1986.


 The following year, she obtained her professional qualification as a barrister-at-law from the Nigeria Law School. She later became the Gambia's first expert in international maritime law after earning a master's of laws from the International Maritime Law Institute in Malta.


                                Career


Between 1987 and 2000, Mrs Bensouda was successively State Counsel, Senior State Counsel, Principal State Counsel, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Solicitor General and Legal Secretary of the Republic, and Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of The Gambia.


Her international career as a non-government civil servant formally began at the UN 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 and served as Chief Prosecutor between 2012 to 2021. 



                      

 

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