Irene Khan
Organization leader
1956 –
Who is Irene Khan?
Irene Zubaida Khan is a Bangladeshi international human rights activist based in the United Kingdom. She was the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International until her resignation on 31 December 2009. She was appointed as a member of the Charity Commission of England and Wales on 1 January 2010 but resigned after a controversy over post-retirement payments she received from Amnesty International.
Khan joined The Daily Star, a Bangladeshi newspaper, as consulting editor on 15 May 2010. Since 2009, she has served as the Chancellor of the University of Salford.
On 17 November 2011, she was elected as the Director-General of the International Development Law Organization, an intergovernmental organization based in Rome, Italy.
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- Born
- Dec 24, 1956
Sylhet - Also known as
- Irene Zubaida Khan
- Khan, Irene
- Religion
- Islam
- Ethnicity
- Bengali people
- Nationality
- Bangladesh
- Education
- Harvard Law School
- Victoria University of Manchester
- University of Manchester
- Employment
- Secretary General, Amnesty International
- University of Salford
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on July 23, 2013
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