Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney
Clooney in 2022
Born
Amal Alamuddin

(1978-02-03) 3 February 1978
Beirut, Lebanon
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • Lebanon
Education
OccupationBarrister
Years active2000–present
Spouse
(m. 2014)
Children2

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born 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. She has also held various appointments with both the United Nations and the Government of the United Kingdom. She is an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. In 2016, she and her husband, American actor George Clooney, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.