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n lawyer. He served as the Chief of Judicial and Legal Affairs, and formerly the Head of Chambers, of the

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. Prior to his current appointment, Ahmed was: 1) a rapporteur for the

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; 2) a Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the

Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal; 3) a prosecuting attorney at the

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; and 4) a Fellow at the

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. Ahmed graduated in law from the

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where he was a

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. He is a member of the Lincoln's Inn and an Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. He is currently a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at

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in St. Louis to establish the world’s first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity. He studied for a Bachelor of Technology from NIT Warangal and schooling from

Kendriya Vidyalaya The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan () is a system of central government schools in India that are instituted under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, Government of India. , it has a total of 1,248 schools in India, and three abroad in Moscow ...

, Bairagarh (

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