Mrs Schnebli has been the Federal Prosecutor/Deputy Head of the Competence Centre for International Mutual Legal Assistance at the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) since 1 April 2006. Prior to her current position, she was the Deputy Federal Prosecutor with the Division for International Mutual Legal Assistance and International/Intercantonal Cooperation at the OAG between 2001 and 2006. She was an Examining Magistrate at the Examining Magistrate's Office of the City of Zurich from 1999 to 2001 and an Assistant Examining Magistrate at the Examining Magistrate's Office IV for the Canton of Zurich (International Mutual Legal Assistance and Money Laundering) from 1998 to 1999.

Mrs Schnebli graduated in law studies at the University of Zurich in 1992 and obtained an LLM (Master of Law in International Economic Law) from the University of Zurich and the Institute for European Studies in 2002. She was admitted to the Bar of the Canton of Zurich in 1998 after Internships with different branches of the Judiciary System of the Canton of Zurich/scientific collaborator of Professor Dr Niklaus Schmid, Professor for Criminal Law at the University of Zurich.