In Residence
Born in Iran and raised in Germany, Professor Ebrahim Afsah commenced his undergraduate law degree at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London, followed by graduate work at Trinity College Dublin, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Max Planck Institute for Public International Law in Heidelberg. Having set up the Institute‘s legal transfer programme in Afghanistan, he continued for a decade as a legal and public administration reform expert in the region, working for a large number of national and international organisations, including the German government, the EU, USAID, UNDP, UNODC and the Worldbank.
He returned to academia in 2012 as an associate professor of international law at the University of Copenhagen and is currently Professor of Islamic Law and Ethics at the University of Vienna.