Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney
Clooney in 2022
Born
Amal Alamuddin

(1978-02-03) 3 February 1978
Beirut, Lebanon
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • Lebanon
  • France
EducationDr Challoner's High School
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford (BA)
New York University (LLM)
OccupationBarrister
Years active2000–present
Spouse
(m. 2014)
Children2

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a French-British-Lebanese international human rights lawyer. She has represented several high-profile clients, including former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

Clooney is Professor of Practice in International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice, an institute she co-founded to harness the power of AI to increase access to justice. In 2016, she and her husband, American actor George Clooney, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.