Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza
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Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza | |
|---|---|
 Luz Ibáñez in 2017 | |
| First Vice-President of the International Criminal Court | |
| In office 11 March 2021 – 10 March 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Judges of the ICC |
| Preceded by | Robert Fremr |
| Succeeded by | Rosario Salvatore Aitala |
| Judge of the International Criminal Court | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Peru |
| Appointed by | Assembly of States Parties |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 July 1955 |
Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza (born 15 July 1955[1] in Trujillo[2]) is a Peruvian jurist and judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Ibañez Carranza is the first Peruvian judge at the ICC.[3][4] Before being elected as a judge at the ICC, she was a prosecutor and professor in Peru.
In 1974 she began to study law at the National University of Trujillo from where she graduated with a BSc in 1982.[1] Between April 1996 she followed up in her studies at the university Inca Garcilaso de la Vega from where in 1998 she obtained a MSc in Criminal law and in 2007 a Doctorate in law[1]
Academic career
In 1996 she became a lecturer in criminal law at the National University Federico Villareal, a position she kept until 2004.[1] In 2004 she was promoted to Professor at the same university in Lima.[1] Additionally, she is the author of several academic papers and books.[1]
Juridical career
Between 1982 and 1984 she was an assistant prosecutor in Lima.[1] Between 1984 and 1988 she served as a deputy provincial prosecutor and from 1988 to 1989, as the provincial prosecutor for the province of Lima in the 4th provincial prosecutor's office.[1] In 1992 she assumed as the provincial prosecutor for Trujillo, which she stayed until January 1993.[1] Onwards she practiced as a lawyer until 1999.[1] Between 2004 and 2017 she was the chief prosecutor for Lima and the prosecutor at the 2nd National Criminal Court that focused on human rights violations,[1] coming to prominence while prosecuting Abimael Guzmán, the leader of Sendero Luminoso, sentenced to life in prison.[5] Between 2005 and 2007 she was involved in over 500 investigations also of human rights violation during the Peruvian internal armed conflict.[6] Other prominent trials in which she was the prosecutor where El Fronton[4][7] a case against members of the Peruvian Navy accused of extrajudicial killings on a prison on an island[6] or the one against Victor Polay, the leader of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).[1]
She was also the delegate representing Peru before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (CIDH), the Inter-American Commission against Terrorism (CICTE) and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (ACNUDH).[8]
