Ahmed F. KHALIFA

Dr. Ahmed F. Khalifa is an Assistant Professor of International Criminal Law at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Since 2014, he serves as the Deputy Secretary General of the International Association of Penal Law and serves also as a member of the Board of Directors of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, in Siracusa, Italy. Dr. Khalifa is an expert consultant with the ICRC in the MENA region where he is advising on several projects, delivers training across the region on IHL. Furthermore, he is the technical expert for the translation of the new commentaries of the Geneva Conventions into Arabic. Moreover, he serves as a consultant with several international organizations including the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and the World Bank in Egypt. Previously, he served as a full time in-house legal consultant with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Torino, Italy. Dr. Khalifa obtained his Phd in ICL from Poitiers University in France after finishing his LLM focusing on IHRL from Temple University, USA. His areas of research covers international criminal law, international humanitarian law and comparative criminal law.