Karim Ahmad Khan

Karim Ahmad Khan KC
Khan in 2022
Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Incumbent
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

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.

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).