Carla Del Ponte (born February 9, 1947 in Bignasco, Canton Ticino) is a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. From 1994 to 1998 she was Attorney General of the Swiss Confederation. From 1999 to 2007 she was chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and parallel from 1999 to 2003 chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha. From 2008 to 2011 she was Swiss Ambassador to Argentina.
From 2011 to 2017 she was a member of a commission (IICISyria) set up by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate human rights violations in Syria in the civil war there.
