Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney
Amal Clooney
أمل كلوني‎
	Amal Clooney with the British mission to the UN in 2014
Born	Amal Alamuddin (أمل علم الدين); 3 February 1978; Beirut, Lebanon
Citizenship	Lebanon; United Kingdom;
Education	St Hugh's College, Oxford (BA); New York University (LLM);
Occupation	Barrister
Years active	2000–present
Spouse	George Clooney (m. 2014)
Children	2

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل كلوني; born (1978-02-03)3 February 1978) is a Lebanese-born British barrister. Notable clients of hers include former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed, Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa, Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy.

She has held various appointments with the Government of the United Kingdom and the United Nations, and is also an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School. In 2016, she and her husband, the American actor George Clooney, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.

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