Rafael Nieto Navia (5 February 1938 – 4 December 2024) was a Colombian jurist and political scientist.
Nieto served as Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for more than five years.
He also served as Auxiliary Magistrate of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Colombia for four years.
On 7 January 2009, Chancellor Jaime Bermúdez Merizalde announced that Nieto had been appointed Ambassador to Sweden by President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, stating that Nieto was a "super internationalist, very well respected, and with a lot of tradition" .
[2] Nieto moved to Stockholm shortly after to take up his office, officially presenting his Letters of Credence to His Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden on 13 May 2009;[3] as Non-Resident Ambassador, he presented his credentials to the President of Iceland Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson on 9 February 2010, and to Her Majesty Margrethe II Queen of Denmark on 15 February 2010.