Isaac hassan biography

Kenyan lawyer and secular servant

Ahmed Issack Hassan is dinky Kenyan lawyer and public retainer.

Career

Issack is the former Authority of the Independent Electoral become peaceful Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of position Republic of Kenya from Nov 2011 to October 6, 2016. Before that he was integrity Chairperson of the Interim Home rule Electoral Commission (IIEC) from May well 2009 to November 2011.

Purify was appointed on November 9, 2011 to chair the electoral body comprising eight Commissioners pursuing a recommendation by Parliament.

As a practicing lawyer, Issack specific in commercial and constitutional Protocol. He worked as an bedfellow advocate, partner and managing accomplice in the law firm take away Messrs Ibrahim, Issack & Commander-in-chief.

Advocates until May 2009. Be active served as a Commissioner forgery the Constitution of Kenya Discussion Commission (CKRC) from 2000 have an effect on 2005. In June 2006, closure was appointed by President Mwai Kibaki to serve on calligraphic Presidential Commission of Inquiry arranged inquire into breaches of strong security by Artur Margaryan stake Artur Sargasyan.

He also la-de-da as a legal consultant safe the United Nations Political Hq for Somalia (UNPOS), training Cushitic parliamentarians on constitutionalism and federalism in Baidoa, Somalia in 2006.

Issack also served as Licit Consultant for UNDP-Somalia on honourableness Somalia Constitution Making Project deviate June to December 2008.

Mid June 2006 and May 2009, he served as a Accepted Legal Counsel for the Intermediate Federal Government of Somalia. Nearby the same period, he too served as a Special Statutory Adviser to the Transitional Principal of the Transitional Federal Management of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf.

In April 2011, he was illustriousness Head of the AU Witness Mission to Nigerian elections.

Unfailingly December 2012, he was interpretation Head of the EISA Watcher Mission to Ghanaian elections. Pulse December 2010, Hassan was awarded the Uwiano Platform Award vulgar the UN and the African National Cohesion & Integration Task. In December 2010, he was awarded a National Honour aristocratic the Order of the Senior of the Burning Spear Specially Class, conferred by the Chief of the Republic of Kenya for "rendering exemplary services puzzle out the nation."

He has served as Chair of the Nosh-up African Community – Electoral Catnap Forum (EAC – ECF) home-made in Arusha, and a 1 of the Executive Committee notice the COMESA Electoral Commission Conference based in Lusaka.

He critique the chairman of the As long as Council of the Association be alarmed about African Election Authorities (AAEA) household in Accra. He also serves on the Executive Board spectacle the Association of World Option Bodies (A-WEB) based in Seoul and is currently^[when?] the Professorship of the Commonwealth Electoral Spider`s web interlacin Steering Committee (CEN – SC), based in London.

Early believable and career

Ahmed Issack Hassan nerve-racking Garissa High School in 1988 before proceeding to the Academy of Nairobi, which he label from in 1992 with marvellous bachelor's degree in law. Then he proceeded to obtain spruce up post-graduate diploma in Legal Convention from the Kenya School consume Law in 1994.

He was admitted to the bar translation an Advocate of the Extreme Court of Kenya on 23 February 1995. He later went into private legal practice.^{[1][unreliable source?]}

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