# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-emmerson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:03:31.060Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-emmerson"
name: "Ben Emmerson"
slug: "ben-emmerson"
description: "Michael Benedict Emmerson CBE KC is a British barrister, specialising in public international law, human rights and humanitarian law, and international criminal law. From 2011 to 2017, he was the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. Emmerson is currently an Appeals Chamber Judge of the UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals sitting on the Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He has previously served as Special Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and Special Adviser to the Appeals Chamber of the ECCC."
tagline: "British Queen's Counsel"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Emmerson_at_Chatham_House_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1963-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.437647433192444
  historical:           6.83492
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "BenEmmerson1"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6043026/"
    handle:    "nm6043026"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump