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Kimberly Prost (born June 4, 1958 ) is a Canadian lawyer and judge at the International Criminal Court .

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Prost studied law at the University of Manitoba from 1976 until her Bachelor of Laws in May 1981 . In June 1982, she was admitted to the Manitoba Bar and served as a prosecutor with the Winnipeg District Attorney's Office . In 1987 she moved to the public prosecutor's office in the Canadian capital Ottawa with the special department for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In 1990 she moved to the Department of International Cooperation in Criminal Law of the Canadian Department of Justice, of which she became director in 1994. From 1998 to 2000 she was a part-time lecturer at McGill University in international criminal law. In 2000, Prost became director of the Criminal Law Division of the Commonwealth Secretariat . Since 2004 she has also been a lecturer at Queen's University . From 2005 to 2006 she worked for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime . In July 2006 Prost became a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , which she left again in 2010 to become ombudswoman of the al-Qaida sanctions committee of the UN Security Council. In 2016 she became Chef du Cabinet of the President of the International Criminal Court .

In March 2018, she herself became a judge at the International Criminal Court. As such, she participated in the proceedings against Jean-Pierre Bemba , William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta, among others .

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• Cheers to the ICC