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Fergal Gaynor is an international criminal lawyer. He has been counsel for the victims in Prosecutor v. Uhuru Kenyatta at the International Criminal Court (ICC). For over a decade, he served as a prosecution trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (most recently in the trial of Radovan Karadzic) and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. He also worked as a legal adviser to the UN International Independent Investigation Commission in Beirut. He trained as a commercial lawyer at Freshfields in London and Tokyo, and is an Irish barrister. He graduated in law from Trinity College, Dublin, and in international relations from the University of Cambridge. At Harvard, his research focused on the exercise of prosecutorial discretion at the ICC.