Amal Clooney

Amal Clooney
Clooney in May 2016
Born	Amal Alamuddin (1978-02-03) 3 February 1978 (age 39) Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality	British, Lebanese
Education	Dr Challoner's High School
Alma mater	St Hugh's College, Oxford New York University
Occupation	Barrister
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	George Clooney (m. 2014)

Amal Clooney (née Alamuddin; born 3 February 1978) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specializing in international law and human rights. Her clients include Julian Assange, the founder of , in his fight against extradition. She has also represented the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy. She is married to the American actor George Clooney.

Amal Alamuddin was born in Beirut, Lebanon. However, during the 1980s Lebanese Civil War, the Alamuddin family left Lebanon and settled in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. She was two years old at the time. Her father, Ramzi Alam Uddin, from a Lebanese Druze family from Baakline (a village in the Chouf district), received his MBA degree at the American University of Beirut and was the owner of COMET travel agency, returned to Lebanon in 1991. Her mother, Bariaa Miknass, from a family of Sunni Muslims from Tripoli in Northern Lebanon, is a foreign editor of the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat and a founder of the public relations company International Communication Experts, which is part of a larger company that specializes in celebrity guest bookings, publicity photography, and event promotion.

She has three siblings—one sister, Tala, and two half-brothers, Samer and Ziad, from her father's first marriage.

Clooney attended Dr Challoner's High School, a girls' grammar school located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. She then studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received an Exhibition and the Shrigley Award. In 2000, Clooney graduated with a BA degree in Jurisprudence (Oxford's equivalent to the LLB) from St. Hugh's College, Oxford.