# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kai-ambos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:44:16.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kai-ambos"
name: "Kai Ambos"
slug: "kai-ambos"
description: "Kai Ambos is a German jurist and judge. He holds the teaching chair at the University of Göttingen in criminal law, criminal procedure, comparative law and international criminal law. He served as a judge at the District Court for Lower Saxony between 2006 and 2017. In February 2017, he was appointed to serve as a judge on the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a specialized hybrid criminal tribunal located in The Hague. He has authored and edited numerous publications on criminal law and procedure in Germany and internationally."
tagline: "German judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roemerberggespraeche-05-2024-kai-ambos-10642.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.303170666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm16277370/"
    handle:    "nm16277370"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Ambos"
    title: "Kai Ambos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "كاى امبوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Ambos"
    title: "Kai Ambos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Ambos"
    title: "Kai Ambos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Ambos"
    title: "Kai Ambos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1721271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5755142"
    title: "Kai Ambos"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump