Hassan Jallow

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia & former Prosecutor of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Justice Hassan Bubacar Jallow  is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Gambia. Previously, he served as Prosecutor of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR). He was first appointed to the post by the U.N. Security Council in 2003. Justice Jallow was also appointed by the U.N. Security Council on 1st March 2012 as the first Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for a term of four years. He also serves as the Chairman of the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability and Vice Chair of the World Justice Project.