Dr. Muhannad Alazzeh

• Holds a Higher Diploma in Public Policy, Democracy, Good Governance and Anti-Corruption from the International Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

• Holds a Ph.D. degree with honors in Comparative Criminal Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Alexandria where his committee issued a recommendation to circulate the thesis among universities because of its significance. The topic of his thesis was “The Protection of the Human Body within Modern Medical Trends from a Criminal Law Perspective: A Comparative Study” ; deliberating the issue in relation to French law, Anglo-American law, Arab legislation, and Islamic law. In his thesis, he discusses the criminal responsibility for organ transplants, human cloning, and misuse of embryos and human harvested cells/ organs.

• He holds a master’s degree in law from the same college where he obtained a higher diploma in Public Law in 1993 and was ranked third among his colleagues despite the challenges he faced in reading and writing. At the time, he was totally dependent on audio recordings of the voices of readers, and on writers to whom he dictated his answers and who were not proficient transcribers. He obtained a higher diploma in private law and was the only student who was able to pass the written and oral exams for this diploma in September 1994.

• Holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the same college in 1992.

• Has undertaken many specialized courses in forensic evidence, forensic medicine, human rights, communication skills, media and methods of effective training and strategic planning.