Osvaldo Zavala Giler
Registrar of the International Criminal Court
Osvaldo Zavala Giler has been serving as the Registrar of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since February 2023. Mr Zavala Giler is the first former ICC Staff Member to assume this function, as well as the first national of a Latin American nation to do so. At the ICC, Mr Zavala Giler served as Chief of the Budget Section (2022-23), Senior Special Assistant to the Registrar (2016-22), Head of Office of the Court’s Liaison Office to the United Nations in New York (2018-19), and Special Assistant to the Registrar (2010-16). Mr Zavala Giler is also one of the founding members of ICCQ, the Sexual and Gender Diversity Network at the Court. Prior to joining the Court, Mr Zavala Giler worked as a Legal Officer, Legal Adviser and Liaison Officer to the United Nations for the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC), from 2006 to 2010, both in New York and The Hague. He also worked in a law firm in Ecuador from 2000 to 2003, including on cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Updated: April 16, 2025