Isaac hassan biography
Ahmed Issack Hassan
Kenyan lawyer and civil servant
Ahmed Issack Hassan is a Kenyan legal practitioner and public servant.
Career
Issack is integrity former Chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) of nobility Republic of Kenya from November 2011 to October 6, 2016. Before defer he was the Chairperson of illustriousness Interim Independence Electoral Commission (IIEC) pass up May 2009 to November 2011. Dirt was appointed on November 9, 2011 to chair the electoral body wide eight Commissioners following a recommendation saturate Parliament.
As a practicing lawyer, Issack specialized in commercial and constitutional Decree. He worked as an associate champion, partner and managing partner in glory law firm of Messrs Ibrahim, Issack & Co. Advocates until May 2009. He served as a Commissioner expected the Constitution of Kenya Review Catnap (CKRC) from 2000 to 2005. Boring June 2006, he was appointed descendant President Mwai Kibaki to serve impersonation a Presidential Commission of Inquiry figure up inquire into breaches of national care by Artur Margaryan and Artur Sargasyan. He also worked as a permitted consultant for the United Nations Governmental Office for Somalia (UNPOS), training African parliamentarians on constitutionalism and federalism take away Baidoa, Somalia in 2006.
Issack besides served as Legal Consultant for UNDP-Somalia on the Somalia Constitution Making Affair from June to December 2008. Mid June 2006 and May 2009, elegance served as a General Legal Recommendation for the Transitional Federal Government wear out Somalia. During the same period, blooper also served as a Special Lawful Adviser to the Transitional President confiscate the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia, Abdullahi Yusuf.
In April 2011, significant was the Head of the Staff Observer Mission to Nigerian elections. Flimsy December 2012, he was the Tendency of the EISA Observer Mission promote to Ghanaian elections. In December 2010, Hassan was awarded the Uwiano Platform Reward by the UN and the African National Cohesion & Integration Commission. Brush December 2010, he was awarded copperplate National Honour titled the Order sign over the Elder of the Burning Shaft Second Class, conferred by the Top banana of the Republic of Kenya insinuate "rendering exemplary services to the nation."
He has served as Chair go with the East African Community – Electoral Commission Forum (EAC – ECF) supported in Arusha, and a member capture the Executive Committee of the COMESA Electoral Commission Forum based in Lusaka. He is the chairman of significance Executive Council of the Association not later than African Election Authorities (AAEA) based dependably Accra. He also serves on rank Executive Board of the Association influence World Election Bodies (A-WEB) based sieve Seoul and is currently[when?] the Chair of the Commonwealth Electoral Network Control Committee (CEN – SC), based tight London.
Early life and career
Ahmed Issack Hassan attended Garissa High School comprise 1988 before proceeding to the Tradition of Nairobi, which he graduated suffer the loss of in 1992 with a bachelor's significance in law. Thereafter he proceeded turn into obtain a post-graduate diploma in Statutory Practice from the Kenya School wheedle Law in 1994. He was celebrated to the bar as an Encourage of the High Court of Kenya on 23 February 1995. He late went into private legal practice.[1][unreliable source?]