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Amal Clooney
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![]() Clooney in 2018
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Amal Alamuddin
3 February 1978 Beirut, Lebanon
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Nationality | United Kingdom Lebanon |
Education | Dr Challoner's High School |
Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford (BA) New York University (LLM) |
Occupation | Barrister, Human Rights Activist |
Years active | 2000–present |
Spouse(s) |
George Clooney (m. 2014)
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Children | 2 |
Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; Arabic: أمل علم الدين; born 3 February 1978) is a Lebanese-British lawyer. Her works focused in international law and human rights.
Her clients include Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko; Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy; and Nobel Prize laureate Nadia Murad.
In 2019, Clooney was appointed the special envoy on media freedom by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Clooney (right) with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London in 2019.

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