Karim Ahmad Khan
British lawyer (born 1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Karim Asad Ahmad Khan KC (born 30 March 1970) is a British lawyer specialising in international criminal law and international human rights law, who has served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since 2021.
Karim Ahmad Khan | |
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Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court | |
Assumed office 16 June 2021 | |
President | Piotr Hofmański Tomoko Akane |
Deputy | Mame Mandiaye Niang and Nazhat Shameem |
Preceded by | Fatou Bensouda |
Personal details | |
Born | Karim Asad Ahmad Khan (1970-03-30) 30 March 1970 (age 54) Edinburgh, Scotland |
Relatives | Imran Ahmad Khan (brother) |
Education | King's College London (LLB, AKC) Wolfson College, Oxford |
After his appointment by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, he served as a United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and acted as Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIL in Iraq (UNITAD), which was established in accordance with Security Council resolution 2379 (2017) to support national efforts to hold ISIL (Daesh) accountable for acts that may amount to war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity in Iraq.
In February 2021, Khan was elected the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In May 2024, he announced his intention to apply for an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and other members of his cabinet, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, as part of the ICC investigation in Palestine.[1][2][3]