Amal Clooney

Amal Alamuddin
Nationality	British-Lebanese
Occupation	Barrister
Partner	George Clooney (2013-present)

Amal Alamuddin is a British-Lebanese lawyer specialising in international law, human rights, extradition and criminal law.

Early life

Alamuddin's family fled from war-torn Beirut to London when she was two. They settled in Gerrards Cross. Her mother, Baria, 66, is the foreign editor of Arab newspaper al-Hayat. Her father Ramzi, a retired professor of business studies at the American University of Beirut, returned to Lebanon in 1991. Alamuddin has three youngers siblings; a sister, Tala, and two brothers Samer and Ziad. Her grandmother was said to be the first woman graduate of the American University in Beirut. Alamuddin was educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University, winning the Shrigley Award, and at New York University School of Law, where she was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award.

Career

Alamuddin has been appointed to a number of UN commissions including as adviser to Special Envoy Kofi Annan on Syria, and as Counsel to the Inquiry launched by UN human rights rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC into the use of drones in counter-terrorism operations. She has been involved in many high-profile cases, representing the state of Cambodia, the former Libyan intelligence chief Abdallah Al Senussi, Yulia Tymoshenko and Julian Assange.

Alamuddin has also been appointed to a number of international human rights investigations and conflict-resolution panels. She is an adviser to the King of Bahrain in connection with the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry headed by Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni.

Alamuddin has also lectured students on international criminal law at SOAS (University of London), The New School in New York, The Hague Academy of International Law, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Personal Life

Engaged to George Clooney.

External links

• http://vimeo.com/90740322