Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a British 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 44 in 2024). Amal Clooney is the 161st most popular social activist (up from 404th in 2024), the 25th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 95th in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Social Activist.

Amal Clooney is most famous for her accomplished career as an international human rights lawyer, representing high-profile clients and working on major cases involving human rights violations, freedom of expression, and international law before bodies like the International Criminal Court and European Court of Human Rights.